Final Presentation and Plans

Since last week I have been thinking of what could be used for my final project for the class. I would like to go with the idea of setting up a virtual production set with my added light fixtures and Unreal commands.

After a brief talk with Professor Nick, he mentioned that his current Independent Study class was interested in setting up the X-Wing in studio for virtual production. Since I already help out with this class as a TA, I thought I can jump on board to use this opportunity to set up my final DIGM540 project.

Here are the final steps I have in mind for this project in order of importance:
  • Figure out wireless connections between Aputure lights and program them to imitate moving lighting in the virtual scene
  • Integrate LED strip lights to the scene and set them up with DMX
  • Add on speech recognition and run lighting commands through speech AI
Ideally, my schedule for the upcoming weeks would look like:
  • Week 8: Aputure lights
  • Week 9: LED strip lights
  • Week 10: Voice commands
  • Finals Week: Fixes and presentation
I'll focus on getting Aputure lights to work first. As soon as those are successfully working in a scene the way I want, I'll look into adding LED lights to my setup (order for DMX decoder pending). If I make the lights work and have spare time, I will get onto adding some voice commands to control the lights.

Less than a month to go! We'll see how everything goes... :D

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