Project Progress (18/02/2018)

It’s been a little while since I last posted, so it’s about time to update all of you on the progress I have been making with my AR Battleships game, and I think it’s coming on pretty well if I do say so myself! I have been making quite a bit of progress with the …

Watson Speech-To-Text Unity Tutorial – Part 1 : Grid Creation

In this blog post I am going to go through the process of getting a simple demo of Watson's Speech To Text service working inside Unity. The Speech To Text service allows us to send an audio clip, or audio streamed from a microphone, and receive a string of text back which can then be used further. This service is …

IBM’s Watson and it’s use in Industry

So, it's been a while! I've been busy getting started on creating my first prototype, which I will get into more detail later, however today I am going to talk about IBM's Machine Intelligence Watson. Watson is an incredibly powerful piece of artificial intelligence, created by tech giants IBM, that is capable of dealing with …

Research up to now – Electronic Board Games and the Internet of Things

My next load of research has been focused on whether there are any board games that fall under the same areas of technology that I will be using, and also the use of Internet of Things components, specifically in board games. The good news is I didn't find anything that uses all 3 areas of technology that I will be using (AR, IoT and Watson AI), which …

Research up to now – Augmented Reality

Over the past few weeks I have been collecting information on the different fields my project will fall under, more specifically: Augmented reality technology and how it is used in today's games Electronic board games that are currently on the market How IoT (Internet of things) components are used in games IBM's Watson AI and how developers are using …

First blog post

Explanation of dissertation project.