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When we need an ideation app on Mixed Reality platform, we definitely want to reach the border of the super-powerful tool. The process of Ideation divides to two parts: brainstorming and mindmapping. Part I - brainstorming - the terminate ideal scenario could be the user only needs to come up with ideas, and the tool can provide everything in needs at once within their reach. And the ideas are represented in multiple media formats: text, image, video, sound, model, and drawing. Part II - mindmapping - with all of the assets/resources at hand, it’s time for categorizing and logically organizing all of these thoughts.
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To build the MVP, we start digging deeper into the two main parts. Firstly, the brainstorming process is to create all nodes to be used in mindmap; secondly, categorize all nodes to build a mindmap.
Functions
Brainstorming
Mindmapping
Visualization
Apart from specify the functions, there should be a vision on the visual format of all kinds of media. As mentioned above, every node here is a 3D object. Imagine in the real life, what are the formats of text, image, video, models, sound and even drawings? Furthermore, in Mixed Reality, virtual objects almost share the same placement method with the environment with physical objects. Namely, if the format of image is a picture frame, the wall should be where the frame hang. And the 3d models could be placed on the surface.
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When we have most of the units and basic interface in mind, interactions among these elements are the switches of the workflow. Before setting up the exact interactions to each elements, let’s have an overview of the pool of interactions.
Inputs: hand(gestures), eye(movement), voice(speaking), controller(button interactions: press, hold, swipe; controller interactions: move).
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