XRD Blog

  To start with my general reflections I would sum up the XRD course as the challenging one, without prior knowledge from GMD. Reflecting the first weeks of the course, it was very frustrating to begin with. Not having any clue how Unity works and having to “immediately” create some working and representative project. Adding to that abstraction level of Virtual Reality. However after spending quite some time on getting to know Unity and understanding the fundamental concepts during the first project it started combine all together. Though I was surprised how much effort is required to do even a simple button and coordinate it with scripts. Not to forget the countless number of objects to be used that I didn’t have a clue about. And that was actually what I spent the time on during the first project. The second project already didn’t seem that abstract and difficult. My group decided to make the bowling game with ARCore tool which surprised me with how easy it was to set it up a...

  My personal reflections on XRD course. The main goal of this course was to develop games using augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Prior to this course, I had no previous experience or knowledge in either AR or VR since I can enroll on GMD course only next semester. Because of the lack of familiarity, I found the course to be incredibly challenging at first, however with each project I gained more and more knowledge. Before deciding on any game idea we brainstormed and presented the game ideas we came up with and voted in order to select the best one, we will proceed with. I really like how the whole communication process looked among my teammates. Prior the development stage we were having a meeting in order to divide tasks among group members. We also updated each other once we implemented a feature so that others can move on with their task. The first project we worked on involved using AR to create a ping pong game. During the development I learned about  ...

  XRD Personal Reflections – Oliwer Szefer 293139, Group X4 Looking from a personal perspective, I would consider the XRD course to be inspiring and useful. As I already had some knowledge from the GMD it was easier to work with all the required tasks. All the projects that I have been working on with the other group members were divided according to the specific topic. For the first two it was possible to work remotely as those were used as the mobile apps, while the 3 rd and 4 th required a headset and more time to configure to make everything work correctly. As the first project was specifically related to the augmented reality, the point was to be able to display and interact with the virtual object placed in the real world using a mobile device and its camera. The Vuforia SDK alongside Unity was used to make the make the ping pong that used a QR code to display a virtual wall for the player to be able to rebound the incoming ball.   It was necessary to include a tr...