After office hours with Mobile lab and Thesis have decided to explore my project’s AR side with Reality Composer / Reality Kit + SwiftUI.
Since travel is limited could test with family in TN also by emailing them the image targets and testing the app via Testflight. Could test UI aspects with Sketch +InVision, and have a link that leads to a clickable playtest version ❤
This week now that some of the quilt patchwork and embroidered targets are done, revisiting the interaction and experience. It can be easy to fall down the rabbit hole of learning a new tool or software. A common question in past office hours whether with Nien, Sarah, Marina, Rui or Ilana has been less about how to make it work technically but to focus more on conceptual side and storytelling.
For W10 I plan to focus on 1 tree interaction then moving to the others. Focusing first on the maple tree on Fairfax.
After office hours with Mobile lab and Thesis have decided to explore my project’s AR side with Reality Composer / Reality Kit + SwiftUI.
Since travel is limited could test with family in TN also by emailing them the image targets and testing the app via Testflight. Could test UI aspects with Sketch +InVision, and have a link that leads to a clickable playtest version ❤
This week now that some of the quilt patchwork and embroidered targets are done, revisiting the interaction and experience. It can be easy to fall down the rabbit hole of learning a new tool or software. A common question in past office hours whether with Nien, Sarah, Marina, Rui or Ilana has been less about how to make it work technically but to focus more on conceptual side and storytelling.
Today was looking through the section ” Building a Quilt”. Looking for piecing tips to build out the pinwheel shape based on my great grandmother’s pinwheel. Will be using old sheets and pillowcases here in the apartment to create a cream & white pinwheel. In the user testing one of the favorite aspects was the filling in of color, to unlock color and images through the mobile device. That it helped tie the two together, creating a feeling of dependency between the two aspects vs two disparate things.
Piecing
considering the right & wrong side of the quilt
right side = top side of quilt
wrong side = backside of fabric
want stitches to be on back side
seam allowance
seam allowance for piecing = 1/4″ (6mm)
Setting up sewing machine
last holiday i got a Janome Arctic Crystal beginner sewing machine, with trying to stay home when we can to flatten the curve have set it up in our apartment. Newer to machine sewing I facetimed with my mom for a quick setup lesson. The instructions with the machine had forgotten to mention an essential step for winding a bobbin, and within minutes Bonnie was able to help set me up, with her camera view on her machine. It reminded me a little of an article from NYT about facetiming with family and friends in ways that are new for some of us.
For my final app I plan to keep iterating on the Trees on My Block list app from midterm. Inspired by NYC Tree map site and its JSON set. I hope to translate some of the things that I love so much about the project into app form while also keeping it hyper local, one neighborhood block view at time. Would love for it to be a more fluid vs hardcoded experience so I could share the app with friends and family in NYC too. Things that I would like to try for:
2 Explore modes
Map View – using geolocation data see where you are on the map and trees you’re next toSpecies List View- navigate to clickable list of species
Ability to update user location data + tree map load based on address input
design/build to where a user could input an address and would load their block’s tree map. When address is entered, would load both their current location and your blocks tree map with corresponding tree species / based on the NYC Treemap Json.
A more intimate / less tutorial driven design aesthetic
This week for hw we were to explore Reality Composer. Pick 3 separate areas (AR Health, AR Learning, AR Retail, AR Work and AR Entertainment) and design an app concept for that area.
AR Swatch helper (AR work / AR Retail)
When looking at possible knitting textile projects or a new pattern theres always the swatch gauge that is supposed to give you a guesstimate of how many stitches = a measured surface area based on needle size, material, and tightness of stitch. Being new to knitting I still forget the importance of making a swatch size and dive straight in realizing maybe its too small of a stitch project for me right now? Although hopefully that intuition will develop over time would love to have an ar app that could parse the swatch gauge measurement for me and generate one in real scale. Sometimes having a visual to scale in your everyday view is the most helpful : )
Object Xray Machine is an educational AR app that overlays a “teardown” view of everyday electronic objects. Learn more about the behind the scenes parts that makeup our electronic tools.
This quick prototype uses an image recognition trigger of the mouse + area around it. Ideally would use object recognition so could be held in hand with overlay, not dependent on feature recognition targets outside the object itself for activation. When the camera recognizes the device like a mouse or phone, it would then reveal the motherboard & components within, with clickable components for more information.
AR plant care (AR Entertainment / Learning) – Object Tracking
An AR app that logs & can remind you when to water your plant friends. Was able to snag a screenshot when it triggered correctly, but only worked for a quick second. Need to do a better object scan for object detection. Instead of a speech bubble could list last time watered and count down to next.
For midterm (W6&7) we were to create a list app that satisfied a certain set of criteria. Mine is a work in progress, but looking forward to continuing to work on it.
Data model for app needs to be 2 or more levels deep
App needs to show list (vertical or horizontal scrolling) and allow navigation to detail
Must be able to input/update a data element
still needs the input / update aspect. would love the ability to collect photos of that treee over time or sketches of it? Using the Imagepicker code kit
Next/Future Steps:
implement image picker code kit to collect and add pictures of trees on block in real time to the detail pages
30 KM/s 