ARound

Splash Screen
Marker

ARound, an ARKit Project

Find your destination in the real-world with use of ARound, an iOS App that takes advantage of ARKit. ARound takes your location and the location of significant areas around you, then generates a marker in front of the location so you can see where it is. It will even give you the name and some information about the place of interest. This project was developed at the SBHacks IV Hackathon between Duc Dao, Matthew Montoya, and Daniel Villa.

Note: This app is optimized for the iPhone X running iOS 11.2 or newer. It may not function properly on non-iPhone X devices and/or devices running iOS 10.x or older.

Inspiration

While exploring in a new city we want to be able to know where are the significant areas around us. While a map can be useful, it can be difficult to pinpoint a location of interest. It would be more convent to be able to pull out your phone's camera, and have it show you the names and information of places and buildings around you.

This continues to be a work-in-progress && following SBHacks IV, will be available as an open-source project for the community to experiment with. Some of our hopes for furture work include--

Integration with ProjectDent's ARKit-Core Location, an open-source project.
Intergration with the Google Maps SDK for superior navigation performance.
Implementation of Google Maps' Location Sharing feature for finding your friends in crowded spaces (or finding your mom at Whole Foods).