For my senior design project I worked with Professor Mike Baily, OSU’s structure stress testing lab, and 3 other students to create a product that would collect real time sensor data from structural stress tests and create visualizations in a Microsoft HoloLens.

This program worked by taking in raw sensor data from the structural engineering’s department current tool, DasyLab, and parse it in Unity3D. Unity would then create the visualizations and display them on the HoloLens augmented reality headset and make them interactable.

While everyone on the project worked together to accomplish our goal, my specific role was to utilize Unity and the Mixed Reality Toolkit library to create the visualization based on the data sent by the parser. After instantiating visualizations for the sensors, they would then be updated in real time with the name of the sensor, current value, and change it’s size and/or shape to visualize the sensors reading. The user could also use the HoloLen’s built in hand tracking to interact and move the visualizations as needed.

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to field test the final product as the university was closed due to COVID 19.