Milestone # 1 - 11/13/2024

When we sat down to brainstorm we knew we wanted to create a tool to help people learn ASL, and we ultimately decided to add a game element to make the tool a more interactive way to learn. After deciding this, we set out to find out which methods for making custom hand gestures would be best for our use case. After doing some research, we decided to use OpenXR's XR hands for ease of use. With XR Hands, we were able to add hand gestures for ASL letters A-H. To make the process of adding each gesture a bit faster, we also created a script that would automatically set certain metrics to make a new custom hand gesture so that we wouldn't have to set the variables one by one by hand.  

When deciding how to implement multiplayer, we wanted ease of implementation as multiplayer will be the hardest part of the game to get working smoothly. We have decided to use the Meta XR Core SDK (specifically the Network Building Blocks) to implement the lobby and Unity Netcode for Game Objects for the network framework. With the Building Blocks, we were able to set up the multiplayer lobby, however testing if it worked was our biggest issue. Testing multiplayer is something we have tried to get set up, trying symlink, building to a Quest headset while also running a Unity editor, however, we are not sure if the multiplayer connection is successful.