Palimpsest

 

Platform: Moverio BT-200 smartglasses

 

Time: 4 months

 

Role: Programmer

 

Palimpsest is a navigation app that placing a 3D companion robot rendered for stereo vision in real space using the glasses' sensor data. The robot uses voice I/O, gesture recognition and expressive animation to guide the user to the final destination.

 

I worked as a programmer, writing a plugin for the Unity game enginer in order to call third party gesture recognition methods in native Android, built I/O logic in an event-based architecture, and as the pipeline programmer, handling the transferrance of 3D assets and animation.

 

I also conducted usability testing, and was able to use the results to document insights on mobile AR development.

 

Palimpsest was featured in The Architechnologist, Yahoo Finance, Virtual-Strategy Magazine, and Twice.

 

Teammates: Rex Hsieh, Artist; Wei Guo, Programmer; Mohit Taneja, Programmer; John Shields, Producer