For week 5 I downloaded the Starting Point which was done by Joshua Peterson and An-Chi He.

Some of the projects I wanted to download I couldn't because I couldn't find that front and back cover for their AR projects. When I first start the AR project there was a lot in this scene. What stood out the most for me was how many models were on the screen. It made that it look like that book has a lot to offer just based on this one scene alone.

All the models are fully colored and make the scene look very vibrant dramatic.

This is also a lot of animation going on in the front of the book. I like the sonata sly flying around the scene. This was very simple to me it stood out the most. This is the kind of book where the user will need to step back to take it all in. This brings out most of the “Movie Theater” experience to life. The lighting was good so that I was able to see everything that was going on, nothing was going black due to their being a lack of light in the scene. The ambiance is also really nice. Very soothing and relaxing. I believe they chose a piece of really good music that good with the whimsical setting.

Another great part that I liked about their project was that there was a translation virtual button on the top of the back of the book. This button is clearly labeled so that the user knows what that will translate the text on the screen. This was a really good UI design on the Joshua and An-Chi part. The review section was also done nicely. I like how they used 3D stars to show the review. Another component that was of high quality was the video reviews. Because two people were working on this project. They found a clever way of putting both the video in one scene. They put each video on the side of the book at and angle. Here you can simply move the book at an angle. There’s a problem with this though is that both videos will play at the same time. This just makes a lot of un-audio sounds that are loud and don't make sense to the user. If they were able to fix this then it might work well in Augmented reality.

One of the things that I didn't like about this project was that it was a lot to handle on my computer. There were a lot of models and that animations going on in the background for the front cover. Because of this, it was taking all the power my MacBook had to keep it running. This result in the project running at around 8-16 FPS on my computer. This might have been avoiding if Joshua and An-Chi used models that were lower in polygons. This could have increased the frames per second to around 20 and made it more pleasurable to run. All in all, if this the AR experience that someone with google glasses would need to experience due to the large scale and size of this project.