Project: SquarePeg



Team

Andrew Rather, Youngwoong Lee, Vishal Mishra, Yuang Ni

#SquarePeg

Tagline

Bringing old fashioned video up to speed in a 3D world.

Background:

There is currently no application for viewing a mixture of 360 degree video combined with traditional flat video in a single viewing experience.  To do so would allow for a much better viewing experience in a more practical and applicable fashion.  Traditional video is better at presenting information, while 360 video is better at creating an immersive experience.  Mixing the two styles allows for a wide range of informative and immersive experiences.

Our application is designed to handle this within a web browser and for use with Google Cardboard.  The application allows standard motion control when you are viewing the 360 video but then suspends the controls for traditional video.

Future Work

We hope to include an interface for selecting video later on.  In addition to this, a better transition between the 2 video types would be good as well.

Video

https://youtu.be/j9WricenHlg

Repository

https://github.com/NCSUMobiles/Spring16-squarepeg


Project: VR Timeline



TEAM

Colleen Hutson, Ronak Nisher, Juhi Desai, Akash Agrawal, Hongyi Ma, Kamaria Hardy

TAGLINE

A virtual reality timeline experience that allows a user to go beyond the event.

BACKGROUND

The open source tool Timeline JS allows a user to create a timeline about anything.  Using a Google Sheets template the user provides the tool with the dates, event titles, and pictures.  Timeline JS then creates a clean, organized, functional timeline.  Our challenge was to take this two-dimensional timeline and bring it to life in a virtual reality environment.  We were tasked with implementing an intuitive experience that would provide the user with more information and images than the desktop Timeline JS version.

KEY FEATURES

Upon launching the application the user becomes immersed in a new learning experience
  • Gaze Triggered Buttons:  all buttons with the application are triggered by the user’s gaze.  The user must stare at a button for approximately 5 seconds to “click” it
  • Help Screen: at the launch screen the user may select the help screen that will instructions on how to interact with the timeline
  • Ease Scrolling: the user scrolls through the time by simply looking to the left or to the right.  The further the user looks to the left or right the quicker they scroll through the timeline.
  • Event Buttons: each timeline event is represented with a button and to learn more about a particular event the user triggers it with their gaze
  • Information Panels: upon selecting an event button a panel above and below are set based on that event
    • Some Additional Information: Above the timeline the user will be provided with a brief description of the event and a single image
    • More Additional Information: Below the timeline the user will be provided with additional background on the event and/or extra images
  • More Timelines: the user has the capability of switching to different timelines

FUTURE WORK

  • Currently each timeline must be individually created.  If we can incorporate the Timeline JS excel template into the application, we can improve the efficiency of creating additional timelines and possibly allow each user to individualize what timelines he/she can view
  • In the world of design a world event or economic crisis can have an impact on the design and construction of products.  If we can identify the implications such an event or crisis had on production we can connect the two timelines and allow the user to see how current events influenced product development.

REPOSITORY
https://github.com/RonakNisher/VR-Timeline/tree/Centered_Info

VIDEO

https://youtu.be/q3C9xC8PBwQ

Project: Story Maps

StoryMaps Final Project

#projects

Tagline: Every place has a story to tell.

Description:

Do you miss the old tourist maps that would give you curated content, specialized for your needs? Today, Google Maps dominate when it comes to travel. However, when one needs to explore new areas, where does one start? We don't have many options today to address this need. Thus, we present to you - StoryMaps.

The StoryMaps application allows you to access curated stories for Raleigh. Every story or map trail is based on a different theme. You can select any story that you like and follow the trail of locations provided to start exploring the new place! Each story provides a custom map and distances of all places from your current location.

Future Work:

Adding Search functionality, to search from a list of stories.
Providing direction between locations.
Adding different verticals, for example, stories with a global appeal.


Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJirEhxwehM

Repository: https://github.com/NCSUMobiles/Spring16-storymaps

AppStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ionicframework.storymaps565921

Representative Image:

Recognize Final Project

#projects

Project: Recognize

Recognize is an imaged based quiz game that tests your ability to perform different mental operations on the main image to match it with one of four image choices as quickly as possible!

Recognize aims to create an innovative visual recognition game that targets school-aged children.

The application is android based and requires players to identify one of the image choices as being somehow related to the main image, which is filtered with some effect (ex: blur, vertical scanner, etc.). The content (images and fun facts) of the game is remotely managed via a Google App Engine.

Future requirements include integrating authentication into the server-side, creating easy/medium/hard levels, and having users upload their own images and albums into the app

Website: https://recognize-1210.appspot.com

Repository: https://github.com/NCSUMobiles/Spring16-recogneyes

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7QAYFBHMrFhbGVzRHpBTEtfR28/view?usp=sharing


Apologies! Ignore visual experience note

Apologies folks!

Ignore the previous message about visual experience.

Posted on the wrong course!

Prof watson

Reminder: touch and maps questions

Folks,

You might want to do our touch and maps questions to prepare for the corresponding quizzes during our last Monday class.

Professor Watson

Find: EU lodges formal antitrust complaint against Android

EU lodges formal antitrust complaint against Android
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The European Union has notified Google of formal antitrust charges against the company relating to its Android mobile operating system. The charge sheet focuses on the company's prioritizing of its own services on Android devices, including practices that mean that Google Search is "pre-installed and set as the default, or exclusive, search service on most Android devices sold in Europe." The EU's investigation, which was originally opened last April, claims that this and other measures prevent companies from effectively competing with Android.

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Find: Intel cuts 12,000 jobs in wake of falling PC sales

Mobile takes a bigger bite out of intel. 

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Intel cuts 12,000 jobs in wake of falling PC sales
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Intel is laying off 12,000 employees globally, or about 11 percent of its workforce, the company said in a statement today.

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Team evals

Folks,

As we approach this semester's crescendo, please make sure that you perform for your team.

For those of you who feel one or more of your team members are not performing, you can ensure that failure to perform is reflected in their course mark by filling out this form as a team. Your feedback about your team members is anonymous.

Prof. Watson

Next #appfight in @NCState's @mobiclass: Twitter vs Facebook

Don't forget to post your thoughts about this week's social app fight! Remember to focus on comparing basic interactions, not feature differences.

Dual-camera phones are the future of mobile photography

Dual-camera phones are the future of mobile photography
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Smartphone cameras can do astounding things nowadays, however they are starting to reach some hard physical limits. There's only so much you can achieve within the tight constraints of a device that's 7mm thick, and phone companies are looking for alternative means to keep improving. This spring, LG and Huawei have led the way with their new Android flagships, introducing two very different dual-camera systems that nevertheless signal the direction that the entire industry is about to head in. Apple's iPhone 7 Plus is rumored to be following their lead later this year. One day soon, we'll look at dual-camera phones the way we think of dual-core devices today: just a logical progression with nothing remarkable about it.

LG's G5 will be...

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People interpret the same emoji in completely differently ways

People interpret the same emoji in completely differently ways
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Although emoji fill in where words are lacking, their true meaning might be getting lost in translation. People interpret emoji differently, according to a new study from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. This holds true even if chatting is happening over the same operating system.

Take the "grinning face with smiling eyes" emoji, , for example.  The researchers surveyed online respondents on how they interpreted the emoji's sentiment, rating it on a scale from -5 (strongly negative) to +5 (strongly positive). Seventy percent of people put the face in the negative area of the chart, with most people ranking it at -3. But still, 27 percent of respondents thought it conveyed a more positive emotion. The chart below breaks down the...

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