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MIT Hack Reality 2020 hackathon

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Harvard Graduate School of Design

Reviewing portfolios last night at Harvard University Graduate School of Design with design leadership from Wayfair

I remember architects would come to hashtag#IxDA looking to break into User Experience. Now, architects can leapfrog to the next generation of digital product design with their 3D and spatial output while maintaining a human-centered approach.

Landscape architecture intervention by Xiaoji Zhou xiaojzhou@gsd.hardvard.edu

Brand installation simulated in Unity by Shi Tang www.tangs23.com stang@gsd.harvard.edu

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Focals by North

I used Amazon Alexa on the Focals, asked for a cafe nearby and requested directions.
It’s kind of like a smartwatch on your face.

Tech:
_ Optics: Laser
_ 15 degree viewing area
_ 300 x 300px
_ Monocular


i/o
_ Microphone
_ Voice to Text with Amazon Alex
_ Speaker
_ No Camera


Experience:
The Loop (the ring) - an input device like a joystick on a ring.

Customer service - impeccable.
You get you face scanned.





”Hard to see in daylight
The Ring input device is water resistant.

Mapping Service is Mapbox

Showed “lost internet connection”
[Issues with mapping - does not provide a very accurate position of your location.]


Needed to create a different number to receive text notifications
Text messages are not sent to the Focals, they are sent to North’s server and then North’s server sends a message to the Focals.

Can only order Uber X.
I grew to having enjoy notifications.
They feel like the future.”

 

You can check them out in Toronto and Brooklyn. The environment, customer service and even the response time from the Focals team on social media is really impressive.
Learn more here https://www.bynorth.com/focals

Visit in BK here

NORTH COBBLE HILL

178 Court St | Brooklyn, NY 11201

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A visual positioning system of computer vision and machine learning.

Anything that’s been documented by Street View, like buildings but not trees because branches get cut and they lose leaves.

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Spatial Audio in the Magic Leap

September 2018

Should you have have to walk across a map to access something in AR?
Does AR have to start hidden?
Does it have to be something you could find?

Does audio have to be defined by different locations?

Spatial Audio next to a whiteboard

Spatial Audio next to a whiteboard

AR does not have to be something is hidden to then be found. AR should be contextually visible and accessible, not something that is a challenge to access. In fact, AR should be the interface to all of the technological advancements that we could not otherwise see.

AR should not be hidden. AR should be interactive. In this case, the sound is spatial and therefore interactive, because you can turn away from the sounds (3 degrees of freedom of rotation), and walk away from the sound (three more degrees of freedom).

If the concept is music, sound or audio across space then make the audio spatial.

Here I took static cinema 4D animations that were intended to be linear, non-interactive Snap lenses, and I deployed it the magic leap.

While wearing the Magic Leap, I adjusted the radius of the spatial audio in Unity for the next build.

There were different beats or tunes and with these loops placed in different locations, you could walk around the music.

Play the video above with the sound on to hear the spatial audio.

Ironically in the application I built there was no way to reset the origin of the experience, and with Magic Leap’s persistence, even when I went to the center of the building’s floor plan to launch the music in the cafe, the spatial audio was half a block away.

2D Screenshots from Snapchat

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Magic Leap Hello Cube at R/GA

September 2018


The horizontal tracking started at the height of a standing table (bar height at elbows) so the cube of 1.6 meters high was above my view.

The basic “Hello World” example from Magic Leap is “Hello Cube”

Fittingly at R/GA

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