Inspiration
Personal experience with team members family and their needs and personal struggles to find independence and to retain confidence in their abilities. We wanted to find a solution that can help those we care about and ourselves in the future, making independence and confidence accessible to all.
What it does
- Oculus Quest 2 (VR): Walk around high streets in towns, viewing and interacting with shop websites; the ability to travel and shop for others and yourself unaided
- Common family struggles of being unable to leave and provide for family by themselves.
- Android and iOS (AR): AR assistants for carers and individuals to create personal audio reminders of habits, tasks, and appointments, situated directly in the user's physical environment.
- Family members experiencing diminishing memory and a need for someone to look after them.
How we built it
(With no previous experience in anything)
- We used the Oculus Quest 2 headset in connection with Unity for VR -We used Google ARCore for Android platforms
- Apple ARkit for IOS
Challenges we ran into
With everyone in the team having no experience with Unity, we threw ourselves in the deep end! Learning how to set up the correct environment in Unity and getting used to the GUI were challenge enough, but setting up the integration between the Oculus Quest (also technology entirely new to us...) and Unity soon became the largest weight on our shoulders!
With Unity only allowing you to code for android on Windows for AR, to make this cross platform we had to work nearly independently and yet in unison to build the same product on different frameworks.
We found that the slightest misclick of key combinations could destroy a whole project. We had to deal with working projects being destroyed very suddenly and rebuilding it multiple times
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Working on Unity between many platforms to create proof of concept more than enough to demonstrate our idea. We are proud we have something we believe can help many people and have learned skills we otherwise never would have the opportunity to.
What's next for Connecting the Elderly
We would love to see our project developed further! There is potential for all types of users, from those needing mobility aids to those struggling with agoraphobia. We would continue to develop the phone apps' functionality, and then focus on attaining a web-viewer for the VR app.
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