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Aperture (CDM industry project)

Lead programmer May,2014~ August,2014

An R&D project with the goal of creating an interactive walkumentary framework that can utilize the functionalities of Google Glass as a story telling tool. The client of this project is 8 Leaf Digital Productions. The adviser for this project is one of the creaters of XML, Tim Bray.

My Roles

Lead programmer: In charge of the application programming and coding structure design, also need to effectively collaborate with designers to design the features of this application and give them suggestions from a technical perspective.

What I did

-Implemented voice, gesture, head motion and other sensor control into the Google Glass application.

-Implemented GPS location based events into this story telling framework.

-Implemented augmented reality and image recognition feature into this application.

-Implemented command, mvc and singleton design pattern into the application.

-Created a flexible framework on the Google Glass which is able to handle different types of interactive location based story telling.

-Created an episode editor for artists to let them able to link media files together and create their own content through JSON objects.

-Did performance optimization for the Google Glass application.

Challenges

-Because there is not a lot documentations and study materials on the Internet and Google is still updating its API, it is a chanllege to learn the Google Glass API in such a short peropd of time.

-It is also a challenge to design application for new technologies, because there is not much existing documentations for that.

-Client really want to explore the potential of Google Glass, which means programmers need to explore more on the different functionalities and sensors of Google Glass.

Opportunities

Google Glass has a big unexplored potential market. This project is also a great opportunity to learn new technologies.

SEE PROJECT BLOG HERE