After a successful and exhilarating Round 1 of BVW, we were looking forward to the curveballs that the professors would throw at us during the second round. Since, I had worked on the HTC Vive VR headset during Round 1, I knew that I was going to get the Microsoft Hololens as my development platform for Round 2.
Building Virtual Worlds is an integral part of the curriculum at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. It involves being put in teams of 4-5 students from different disciplines like programming, art, sound and production and building a game or an experience in 1-2 weeks based on the prompts and constraints of that rounds assignment. This technique was pioneered by the great Randy Pausch as a primer to great game development after his sabbatical at Disney Imagineering to be able to foster better teamwork and to allow for true multi-disciplinary collaboration. In the next few blog posts I will share my experience going through Building Virtual Worlds (BVW).