Matthew Rickabaugh Log

Apr 30, 2019

Presented Demo with group.

April 26, 2019

Met with group to do one final run-through of the application, making sure our last pushes were running correctly. Then Discussed what would be on our presentation and who would present what.

April 18, 2019

Brainstormed with team about other things we could add to the Dorm Room scene to increase interactivity. Looking to add trivial things, like a ball that can be thrown, or adding more songs to the radio.

April 13, 2019

Went through the other VR groups project with team and found issues with the project. Some of their scene transitions were not functioning as advertised. Some of the 3D images looked a bit dated (the IBM building was not fully built in one of the scenes).

April 6, 2019

Went through issues assigned, addressed the issue pertaining to the aesthetic of the paintings in Dorm Room scene. Added more USC related images, instead of those scary "anti-USC" mountains.

Mar 29, 2019

Nothing. (Exam Week)

Mar 22, 2019

Brainstormed with team about other ways we could increase interactivity. Decided on adding Game Objects that look like exclamation marks. When the player ray-casts the object it would display helpful information.

Mar 15, 2019

Helped team add the final set of game scenes to the project.

Mar 8, 2019

Worked on debugging a ray-casting error that was only affecting a specific game scene. Isolated the bug down to an if statement, brainstormed with team about how to fix. Eventually resolved the bug,

Mar 1, 2019

Worked on implementing mock interview menus and mp3's. Made it so the player will only be notified of the mock interview after they have visited the job fair. Fixed bug where player could not click on menus after accepting the interview invitation.

Feb 22, 2019

Met with group and talked about what we want to have included in the project by the Beta deadline. Decided on implementing most of the resources through the laptop game object in the "dorm room" game scene. Decided on a simpler, "RPG-like" way of implementing the mock interview, through the laptop.

Feb 15, 2019

Met with client and talked about expectations for the final project. Demo'd the project to one of the School of Business Deans. Talked about the benefits of Virtual Reality with the dean, and why our project was going to be useful.

Feb 8, 2019

Added game scenes that utilized the career fair 360 pictures, as well as game objects to navigate between them.

Feb 1, 2019

Brainstormed ideas for testing Milestone, merged the testing branch to the master branch.

Jan 25, 2019

Went to the Career Fair to get pictures with the 360 camera.

Dec 7, 2018

Presented Proof of Concept in the 1-4 meeting slot.

Nov 30, 2018

Met with group to test builds and decide what we still have left to implement. Decided on and began implementing a strategy to teleport between 360 photo skyboxes. Also, confirmed our presentation date to be Dec 7.

Nov 23, 2018

Loaded in the 360 images into Unity and converted them into skyboxes. Then created scenes that use the skyboxes, which a functional player camera, worked on creating game objects that can be used to navigate these skybox scenes.

Nov 16, 2018

Met with client to show him our progress, mainly in the Dorm Room Scene, which served as a way to demonstrate the functionality of the Oculus Joystick.

Nov 9, 2018

Met with group to condense ideas and decide what we want to put in the Proof of Concept. Decided to focus on the Dorm Room Scene and either the Interview Scene or the Career Center.

Nov 2, 2018

Met with group to divide up the issues. Worked on the Proof of Concept Milestone with group.

Oct 26, 2018

Completed Source Control Milestone with group, watched some VR tutorials.

Oct 19, 2018

Worked on Architecture Milestone.

Oct 12, 2018

Met with group to complete the Requirement Milestone. Brainstormed more ideas to implement for the Tutorial and Resume/Handshake scenes. Worked on the Research Milestone.

Oct 5, 2018

Met with client on Thursday, discussed our ideas, showed him the Detailed Design wiki****. The client gave us an Oculus Go. Worked on the Research Milestone.

Sep 29, 2018

Met with group to brainstorm about the Detailed Design Milestone. Fleshed out ideas about different scenarios the user would encounter. Helped team make mock-up images of these scenarios, as well as explanations of how they would work and flow together. Finished the Detailed Design Milestone by pushing these images and explanations to the wiki. Worked the on the Research Milestone.

Sep 22, 2018

Met with client to discuss goals of the project. Met with group to discuss persona ideas, and finish Milestone 4 and 5. Finished the 'Persona 2: Business Student' wiki. Conducted Unity research.

Sep 14, 2018

Meeting with client was pushed back to next week, because of hurricane. Also discussed ideas for future milestones, as well as read/watched tutorial videos for Unity.

Sep 7, 2018

Joined team Repo, decided meet up dates (M/W/F), discussed team roles (I can be the Editor/Analyst).

Sep 1, 2018

Nothing.