Week 6

So far the game works fine but im having trouble using all 3 sensors in the app so ill have it limit it to 1-2. At the moment im thinking of using heart rate and muscle activity since it would be fairly easy to use in unreal. Im starting to have doubts with the unreal plugin since its a little bit outdated, the values sent from the arduino is although accurate, unreal records every single tick and filtering all the incorrect readings will be really finicky.

You can see from the video that only 1 spawner reads the heart rate and spawns correctly although all of them are set up to read from the same values and spawn with the same speed, this is something that i cant really fix as it is because of the inconsistencies with the plugin

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzutqBm8xJ6dUmRJeVJtb2Jvckk/view?usp=sharing

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