just finished updating the class page, and boy is it nice to be done!

the video itself wasn’t too difficult or time-consuming to make, but it was interesting seeing it come together! the video is a parody commercial and we used the information we found through prior research to create the dialogue. since none of us wanted to do voices, we used a text-to-speech converter which worked well enough, the only downfall is that unless played loudly, a few parts of the dialogue can be difficult to understand on the first watch. Overall though, I would say the video is a success!

we’ll be presenting tomorrow in class!it looks like everything is coming together nicely, we’ve got videos and questions and interesting points to discuss with the class. we have an established structure and lots of things to talk about, though I’m still a bit nervous just because I’m almost always nervous before a presentation. but things look pretty good so far!

It’s been a while!

Between juggling work on the future panel and the group project, things have been intense!! Regarding the final project, we’ve decided to follow Jim’s advice and focus primarily on the xbox one and next-gen gaming consoles in order to unify our research.  I’m looking specifically at the future of these consoles and the kind of impact they may have in terms of monitoring users. The xbox on is notoriously known for once requiring users to always have the camera on, with little explanation as to why. This policy was revoked but is there a chance it might come back? Would it become the norm, and might other consoles pick up on it? Gaming has changed so much since consoles first came out, and ill be looking at how much more change might be in store for the future of console gaming.