Sorry for not posting yesterday; there were a lot of changes and updates to our game plan that we had to figure out. Today has been a little bit better, so *yay*

Yesterday we had an ethics class with Elliot where we learned about the importance of being as objective as possible when working with ethical dilemmas. Ethics is definitely a strange concept. I enjoy discussing it but it sometimes feels like the discussion issues can’t be resolved since there is no true right answer. I am excited to talk about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes at the next meeting though; I learned about Theranos in high school and thought the scandal was fascinating, so I’m happy to have an excuse to watch documentaries and videos on the topic.

After Ethics, we had a lunch lecture with Merate, and she taught us about how she started doing research, while also explaining some of the research projects that she has taken part in. I thought her explanation about sound and the importance of having the different types of sound in mind while designing architecture was fascinating; I had always just assumed that it was unavoidable in cities to have a general loud din, and I had never considered how that could endanger people.

After lunch, we had our meeting with the STEMXR team, and they gave us some pointers on how to redesign our game. To make the design process easier as we continue designing the game, we are going to be using data structures and object oriented programming in our code. This was a little bit overwhelming for me, since I have never worked with either before, and with the short amount of time to learn feels like a lot, but I’m trying to remember exactly that: it’s a time crunch, so we will only be cramming knowledge and frantically applying everything we learn for a little bit of time.

We finished the day with Five Guys in the lab, and I started learning how to use the command prompt with git commands to try and move the code that we’d used for the deeper dive VR game into our new git repository. It didn’t work…but today…

We started today still struggling with moving all the code over. We tried for a couple of hours, and since it wasn’t working, decided to work from scratch and remember what we had done this time around. This worked out!! We got the hand tracking working in a much more complex way than before, allowing us to actually move individual fingers as opposed to just having balls for hands.

This afternoon I’m going to work with the EEG group, which I’m super excited about, and then I will come back in the evening to continue working on the teleport and other locomotion details that we will need to accompany our data structures and oop code that Alee and Rodney are working on.

Until next time 🙂