AchieVAR

Team Info

Floor: 6

Location: Table near door to room.

Room: E14-674

Table Number: 4

Team Leader: Jacob Shepherd, phone number (913)626-4777

Platform: Windows Mixed Reality, HoloLens

Dev Tools: Unity, Visual Studio Community, Mixamo, Blender, Structure Sensor, iOS Voice Memos,

Inspiration

Jacob was inspired by the need of healthcare providers to validate the completion of physical therapy and the need for employers to verify a candidates education credentials. This lead to an end-to-end design in which software facilitates the teaching and recording of a learning experience.

What it does

AchieVAR is an app that gives you a mixed reality learning experience, allowing you to make selections using your voice. It then records your achievement on a blockchain.

How I built it

We built the application in Unity and HoloToolkit. Assets were acquired from SketchFab and Mixamo, and 3D scanned using the Occipital Structure Sensor. Animations were created using Mixamo. 3D assets were modified using Simplygon, Blender and Meshlab. Audio assets were recorded on iPhone using Voice Recorder.

Challenges I ran into

We ran into challenges with compatibility with different versions of Unity, mismatched versions of Unity on our development machines, HoloToolkit and MRToolkit versions and support on our devices. In addition, the 3D scans we did using the Structure Sensor were too high-poly, and thus we were unable to use them without huge performance issues. So we tried to use Simplygon to decimate them, but there were huge issues with Simplygon's support as they'd recently been bought by Microsoft, thus, it is unsupported as a plugin in the newest version of Unity, 2017.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We are proud of creating an AR app that has limitless real-world application, that is controlled by your voice.

What I learned

We learned to absolutely not use experimental software stacks without good documentation when time is a factor.

What's next for AchieVAR

AchieVAR may be developed further, specifically in the healthcare space.

Built With

• microsoft-hololens
• unity