The lightning rounds are over! That is right, we finished our third “one-week” prototype this past Tuesday (and we’re very excited about it). Three straight prototypes of this scope and magnitude may have been ambitious, but we stuck to our process and our deadlines and churned out three solid starting points for further iteration. With…
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Now that Q&A is over, we can get back to making more cool stuff. This week (and weeks 6 and 7 as well, for that matter) was essentially split into two parts: finishing week-long prototype #1 and starting week-long prototype #2. One of those things was easy and one of those things was difficult. The…
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16 weeks for a project. 4 weeks done. That means we are ¼ of the way through the semester and, therefore, through our project. (*checks math*) Yes, that’s right. At this milestone, we have “quarters” at the ETC, where faculty tour the project rooms to learn about what teams have done through four weeks and…
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At the end of the last blog, I promised updates on three things if you were to come back for the third installment of our VR chair experience development blog: prototype progress, playtesting reception of those prototypes, and what direction that reception pushes us next. I am a man of my word, so here are…
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At the end of the last blog post, I mentioned that we were really excited about where this semester would take us… what I did not mention was that I meant that literally. We kicked off Week 2 with a big team field trip to research the seated VR experience space and the Pittsburgh food…
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Welcome to Front Seat’s development blog! For the next 16 weeks, we, a group of five graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), will be developing a virtual reality experience for set of… chairs. Chairs? Yes. Chairs. We will be partnering with China-based SkyLimit Entertainment to make this innovative idea a reality.…
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