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Improve performance of video content in BLUI

We're getting a terrible 16FPS on my surface pro 3. Naturally, we can't support such low-end hardware, but we need to improve performance if this application is going to work on semi-decent systems.

Lobby Level: Game Join/Host Options Screen

It doesn't work all that well to have the screen showing on the initial level. 3D widget reliability + BLUI plugins have issues with that. Better to have a lobby screen and to not start with BLUI.

We also need a screen to host, join, or quit the game.

Add helpful image to present controls to user.

Right now, the controls aren't clear. It'd help to have a menu image to clearly indicate this.

Register mouse down and mouse up events separately to enable things like drawing collaboration.

Right now, you can do cool things like go to the whiteboard app (http://awwapp.com) and do some collaborative drawing. This is because we only register click events. We should register click and mousedown events to make this possible.

Ability to see where the other person is looking

We should be able to see where the other robot is looking. This is a key interactivity component, but will also help with the screen highlighting collisions code ( #13 )

Disable player character movement, and enable looking with mouse in non-VR mode.

Highlight the Bevel to indicate that the character is looking at it.

We need to detect where the player is looking. Otherwise, we won't be able to interpret the proper screen coordinates in VR space. A good milestone for this is to set up a character actor, use that actor, line trace, detect collision, and highlight the bevel material behind the screen if someone is looking at it.

Later on, we can do fancier things like actually draw the cursor/reticle ( #6 )

Ability to scroll using mouse wheel or gamepad.

Network problem strikes again! When client joins the game, they start in a weird location and cannot move.

Fortunately, turning on VR mode seems to solve this. But this should be a problem we fix.

"Main Menu" of video-based websites.

Environment blocking: Throw in the basic environment assets just to set the stage.

Does not open using 4.7.6

Unable to migrate robot or emotion animations to program. Will not open using Unreal Engine edition 4.7.6

Support for Voice chat via Steam!

Research with Voice

Support for Steam / Drop LAN support

The primary purpose of our project is for two remote people to hang out around a "virtual couch," enabling them to watch something or browse the web when they are far apart. For this reason, it makes absolutely no sense to waste time and energy supporting LAN play.

In addition, after spending hours and hours of work, it just doesn't seem possible to support switching from LAN/Steam with an in-game setting using blueprint matchmaking. If you have the steam binaries, you will always use steam, regardless of whether UseLan is checked. The only difference is, when it is checked, things just don't work.

Goal:

Support for Steam
Dropping LAN support for good (making things MUCH easier for us).

Assignment #6

Proof-of-concept UI screen capable of browsing the web and playing audio
Assignment requirements: Networking + Replicated actors, etc...

Sessions aren't closed properly / errors sometimes occur on exit

We need to close the program gracefully and clean some things up. Otherwise, we run into errors.

Specifically, we need to:

Close the session
Turn off the UI display

Add gamepad button to quit game.

Ability to get the URL of the currently viewed page.

This one sounds simple, but I actually need to modify BLUI to tap into this Chromium functionality. This is necessary to make #30 possible.

Character doesn't look up and down using keyboard

Screens that are capable of browsing the web and playing audio.

Goal: Non-synchronized implementation where two players can join in a network game and both look at a screen capable of browsing the web and playing audio.

Scope: The screen does not yet need to support video and doesn't need to support synchronized views (each person could technically be looking at different content).

Create a Robot Body Mesh

It's good practice to build a separate body and head for our avatars (See #8). Since the head is supposed to follow the Rift orientation, we need to detach it from the robot body somewhat.

For this issue, we should build a simple body for the robot. In fact, it can be little more than a sphere with a material that accepts parameters (where one player is another color than the other)

Ability to see a "cursor" and click the screen based on where you're looking at

We also need to know where the "cursor" is. Scope of this issue is:

Draw something akin to a cursor on the screen.
Properly map the cursor-on-screen location to appropriate browser coordinates.
Interact with the screen with an input event.

Ability to reset HMD Rotation and Position

It's a bit annoying when you have an odd starting HMD rotation/position. We need a button to reset the HMD.

Synchronize position of the mouse cursor so that the browser is reactive for the person in control of the screen.

Double vision in VR when camera is looking at robot body.

If you look straight down, at the Robot's body, you get a weird double vision effect. Not sure what is causing this, but it needs to be fixed.

Ability to sync the current URL from the controlled screen.

Sometimes it's possible for the two screens to become out-of-sync. For example, if there are random/personalized elements shown on this page. For this reason, we should enable some sort of manual sync process (e.g., get URL from server and reload). If it works out OK, we could also try some automatic detection and sync mechanism.

Disable debug mode by default and make it so that a single command brings it up. Add "performance mode" to disable mirror and lower resolution.

Add ability to toggle cursor with left face button, main menu with top, reset HMD with right.

Unable to deploy due to unknown error related to cooking

I keep getting the following error, no matter what I do:
[2015.05.30-20.13.47:160][785]MainFrameActions: Cooking (Windows): UE4Editor-Cmd: begin: stack for UAT

[2015.05.30-20.13.47:160][785]MainFrameActions: Cooking (Windows): UE4Editor-Cmd: KERNELBASE.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007fff05b28b9c) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]