Horner's Design

V-See

Introduction

The V-See are a pair of glasses which would display facts and advertisement pop-ups and display a compass which would direct the user like a GPS to their specific destinations. The V-See underwent a lot of development to achieve this final idea.

The aim of the V-see is to allow users to navigate to new areas of the town they are in whilst learning of various facts and memos about the different places on their travels.

Initial Concept

The initial concept was developed through model making. We made 14 different models which each displays different ways to explore a city. These ideas included a ball which would roll towards a point of interest, a visor which would allow the user to change the theme of their surroundings and phone-like product which would direct you toward fruit trees and bushes.

We decided to go with the idea of the visor which would change the surrounding to a different theme. The visor later was changed into glasses because visors are outdated and would look out-of-place. The design eventually came across its first problem; the technology required to create such an item. The technology to change all the surrounding into a different theme such as cartoon, western, etc is non-existent as of now, in the future according to Murphy’s law such glasses could exist but in today’s technology, it is not possible.

Another problem this idea encountered is that if the theme changes around you constantly then the effect of the glasses would diminish until most would deem them as useless after a few uses. The other problem with this idea is that if a tourist were to use the product then they would not be exploring the city they would explore their theme which is not the aim of this product.

The original idea was then changed, instead of changing the entire surrounding it would change a few things such as adding colours to statues or animating a battle where one occurred in the past. The glasses would also display a compass in either corner which would indicate either exact directions or just vague direction.

Development

After having a new concept to work on, we decided to approach the design of the glasses. We decided to go for an add-on to glasses, this was due to the fact that visually impaired people would be able to use our product otherwise. The design is meant to fit on any glasses frame. A free pair of glasses would come with the product for people who do not wear them normally.

 

We then made a functional model of the product which did not look like the sketch, this allowed us the see how the item would function. The model was made using foam, metal rods and recycled packaging.

A second model which looked more like the product intended to look like but did not function properly was also created, this allowed to roughly see how the product would look like whilst also allowing us to take some of the measurements of the models to improve the CAD model which would be made later. The reason why the model did not function properly was that the balance of it was wrong, there was too much weight on the front of the model and not enough on where the product would clip to the glasses.

After that, we started making a CAD model of the product. The model would later be our final model for the accessory. The model was made using Autodesk Inventor. The model was made using both measurements on the previous physical models made and also using different pairs of glasses.

The logo and the App

The logo and the app which would control the interface of the accessory were done last. The app would control the multiple settings such as which pop-ups would appear and how many would appear maximum on the screen and other settings such as that.

    POster

The poster was made on photoshop and is very minimalist showing only what is necessary.

Afterthoughts

I think the project went well, the only major problem with it was the unrealistic product at the beginning of the development, I think we tackled the problem efficiently and managed to create a suitable product out of it.

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