Week 14 – Postmortem

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…

Week 13 – Thanksgiving

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…

Week 12 – Softs

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…

Week 11 – Getting Ready for Softs

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…

Week 10 – Playtest Day

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…

Week 7 – Halves

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…