Ok. It has been a while since my last post. Last week I was away, attending the Irish Web Technology Conference (thanks to the folks over at Python Ireland for the free ticket) and this week I've been sick.. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be better so as to get back to work, since our hardware has arrived. That leads me on to the first part of my update:
Hardware has arrived
As mentioned in a previous post, Alan has been kind enough to purchase a soundcard and wireless headphones for us. They arrived sometime yesterday evening, so we are keen to test them out. Graham has already modified our headset to incorporate the wireless headphones.
Ubisense is ready
On a related note, the ubisense is finally ready and we have received a ubisense tag from Kirk Zhang, one of the techies here in the CDVP. Graham emailed Lorcan yesterday and he has kindly provided us with their C# code, which simply transmits the location data from the ubisense over TCP/IP. This fits in well with the rest of our system, as all our components communicate over TCP/IP.
Tomorrow morning, I plan to test the hardware accelerated HRTF. Hopefully we will now have much improved 3D sound localization. Besides that, I will modify my test application so that the listeners position can be controlled by the ubisence. Once we have the ubisence working, then the hardware side of our project is more or less ready and we can work on demonstration applications and flashy development tools to ease the use of our framework.
Besides this, over the next week, I plan on revising the message router code which I wrote before christmas and then design an easy to use, event-driven API to allow applications to be written in python. The foundation for this already exists, it just needs to be cleaned and refined (and the actual features of the other components need to be exposed to the applications). This will mean that applications can be developed in a single unified place, rather than having to manually connect everything together via TCP/IP (though that option will still exist, just in case it is needed).
Finally, I want to develop a graphjical configuration tool which would be used as a convenient (and user friendly) means of configuring and setting up the framework and applications. Graham knows what I mean, since we have discussed it in great detail, but I won't post more about it until I've started work on it - since it's easier for me to write about something as I'm actually working on it.
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