Goaldefinition
- Freely Movable Globe
- illuminated globe with menu/temperature/searchbar/time and date
- The Searchbar displays the current location, when searching a 2D keyboard pops up
- For time/date, wheels for changing through interaction
- 3.1. Option to link time with the globe: Globe rotates <=> time changes
- When selecting the menu, a 2D menu popup appears with:
- 4.1 Brightness slider with e.g. 6 possible states and +/- next to it
- 4.2 What is displayed on the globe (weather/wind/other)
- 4.3 Room view (room should have adjustable size) Room is a 3D weather display in the room (movable)
- 4.4 Animation quality: high/medium/low/off
- 4.5 Sounds (ambience, weather, screen reader) with a slider
- 4.6 Power off option
- Additional settings
- When zooming in -> like Google Maps/Earth, a 3D sphere where you can see the area/surroundings on the entire sphere, i.e. the rest of the map/planet is pushed back/inward or a new map is loaded and mapped onto the sphere.
Suggestions:
- Weather map and animations are loaded in hexagons
- 5 zoom steps with e.g. 360, 324, 252, 144, 36 hexagons each
The User should be able to:
- place the Globe in his Virtual World
- move the Globe around
- spin the globe
- see the world map on the globe
- tap the globe to choose a location
- change the location with a keyboard
- see wich location he choose
- display the chossen weather next to globe
- see the Time at that Place
- Spin the Globe to change Time and Date
- here a clicking sound while it spins
- turn the sound on and off
- decrese/increse its loudness
- See a weather transition over Time visually
- choose the location of where he wants see it -> weather Box implement
- emerge himself in the weather he choose -> same thing
- adapt the globe and text to be best seen in his envoirment:
- change its transparency
- change its Brightness
- choose what he wants the globe to display
- see the wind speed
- see the global temp
- see the gloabl weather
- use ist as a nice decoration