Lyraflo is a pitch project at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center discovering how virtual reality and music theory can be synergized to foster musical curiosity. We define musical curiosity as a self-driven pursuit, exploration, or reflection of music. Our experiences target university students who are musically-naïve, but musically-interested. Our goal Read more…
Softs Prep Week 13 Updates Thanksgiving Break Trailer, Post-Mortem, Final Presentation Prep https://vimeo.com/652211366 We had a great Thanksgiving Break, and we hope that you did too! We enjoyed lots of great food and quality sessions of the new Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pearl Remake! We had fun, but were productive Read more…
Softs Prep Week 12 Updates Story Part Softs Next Steps Over the weekend, we developed our story and integrated it into the project. In the story stage, guests essentially are presented with a three-act narrative, and advance the plot by picking major or minor. Similar to the other stages in Read more…
Softs Prep Week 11 Updates prototype 3 iterations softs plan Prototype 3 Updates This week, we spent time finetuning and polishing our third prototype, which is exploring major and minor music. Updates to Onboarding Scene https://vimeo.com/646205530 We made significant improvements to our onboarding scene. First off, we decided to take Read more…
Bringing our Experience to the Public Week 10 Updates prototype 3 refinements playtest day findings Prototype 3 Demo https://vimeo.com/643254437https://vimeo.com/643263222 Playtest Day On Saturday we had our playtest day. It was an awesome opportunity to test with folks outside of the ETC. We had about 9 groups of playtesters, each group Read more…
Rotating Into Unity Week 9 Updates prototype 3 updates halloween As Week 9 commences, we have rotated into Unity to begin developing our third prototype. The paper prototype from last week was incredibly valuable because it gave us insightful data that we have leveraged into shaping the environmental visualizations in Read more…
Major and Minor Exploration Week 8 Updates prototype 3 brainstorming paper prototyping of p3 After a nice, long weekend, the team regrouped on Monday (10/18) to begin brainstorming our third prototype. We went into the brainstorming session cognizant of the learning lessons of our last prototype. We knew that we Read more…
Halves Presentation Week 7 Updates halves presentation wrapping prototype 2 Halves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbe2bLrf5Xg&t=271s Jump to around 1:09:40 for our presentation This week, we had our Halves Presentation. Overall, it went really well and we got a ton of great feedback. It was an evocative week, as we were proud of all Read more…
Pivoting Prototype 2 Week 6 Updates pivoting Prototype 2 potent Playtesting Feedback halves Prep This week, we have made many iterations to the design of our second prototype, only making it stronger. Throughout the development of this prototype, we were confident about the success of the accordion mechanic. We were Read more…
The Power of Paper Prototyping Week 5 Updates second Prototype Update branding Since last week, we have conducted more paper prototyping sessions. If you may recall, last week we learned that our guests favored discovery and exploration over fixed progression prescriptions. This week, we created a new paper prototype to Read more…