Goose Guide

Goose Guide!

Inspiration

We are big fans of Niantic's apps and how they leverage technology to amplify in-person experiences. We admire how they blend technology with ways that actively engage their users by leveraging location data, geospatial technology, and AR/VR!

What it does

Our project lets you go on a real goose chase! You follow a goose while going on a scavenger hunt 🪿 The locations specified in the hunt can either be a custom user-created course or generated with mapping data!

How we built it

We learned Blender to create the graphics for this project and then completed our first-ever AR project using Niantic Studio!

Challenges we ran into

This was our first time building things related to AR/VR, so getting used to how graphics interact with 3D space and our phone cameras was a challenge. Learning how to use Blender was also a bit of a learning curve, and it took a while to remember all the shortcuts and best practices to create 3D models.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have only done software projects that revolve around things like full-stack development of web/mobile apps, so it was fun to learn how to create an AR hack this weekend! It was also fun to tap into our creative sides a bit with the design of the app and the use of Blender!

What we learned

We learned about AR, Blender, and geospatial technologies.

What's next for Goose Guide?

We want to expand its uses so that the goose helps users go on more adventures (in safe ways!) with integration of Niantic's VPS Coverage API to integrate real-world map locations.