Week 3 - Discovering Ways to Complete our Project
This week Chelsea and I focused in on AR weather data visualization, instead of data visualization in general. We wanted to make sure that the AR aspect had a purpose and it wasn't a 3D display of something that could just as easily be viewed on a 2D screen. To meet this goal, we decided to display the weather as a virtual environment surrounding the real-life user. Once we figured out what we wanted to complete, we needed to figure out what some ways to accomplish this goal. Chelsea is familiar with Unity's AR tools, so that will be the only constraint. I'm sure there are different plugins that do this very easily, but I want to learn how to do it by and and from scratch. We made a list of what needs to be accomplished in order to get working product: Get weather data Import weather data in Unity Use that data to modulate events, objects, in Unity What else can we do with the data? In order to get live weather data, we must use an API, which calls to a service that return