Inspiration
Tourists, especially those visiting culturally rich and historically dense locations like New York City, often struggle to get context-rich, on-the-spot information about the places they are exploring. Traditional tour guides, printed maps, and static signage provide limited or generic insights, while new ways of immersive tech can be a game changer. These visitors crave immersive, personalized, and interactive storytelling that goes beyond simple text or audio guides. They want to feel as if the city’s history and culture unfold naturally around them.
What it does
An AR app showing location based images, videos, 3d and animations position accurately in relevant spaces based on the user’s location and his or her preferences.
How we built it
Using unity ARFoundation with the Geospatial creator extension
Challenges we ran into
Creating persistent anchors between sessions. Anchoring the images in the right position without (lots :) of drifts and offsets
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Making it happen! And creating a demo allowing for the imagination to run wild of what the future of immersive tech might be hold.
What we learned
We learned the ins and outs of the ARFoundation and the Geospatial Creator / Cloud anchor tools provided by Unity and Google.
What's next for ARTour
Build a city scale platform, based on an archive data set we played around with, and start giving it to our campus friends (Cornell Tech in NYC)
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