HolAR

Inspiration

We wanted a way to visualize 2 dimensional diagrams interactively, but how did this thought come about?

• In specific school lessons, it was hard for us to visualize diagrams like prisms in math and molecular structures in chemistry
• We wanted an easier way to rotate and interact with 3-dimensional object

What it does

• It allows users to see normally 2 dimensional objects in 3 dimensions.
• Users are able to draw object with their hands
• The user's drawing can be predicted by the press of the button and using a machine leaning algorithm referred to as Perceptron, the computer predicts the object and places a more realistic version of the object
• The object is displayed in 3-dimensions by using an optical illusion that creates a virtual hologram

How we built it

• Plastic sheets for the hologram
• Leapmotion
• Unity

Challenges we ran into

• The angle of the plastic sheets was incorrect so we had to cut it out a few times and rework out the ratios
• Apparently a Unity dll was corrupted but it took six hours to figure out

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• We almost gave up at one point but we had some spark of motivation after seeing the hologram in action
• Working as a team and persevering to the end was very helpful
• We managed our time efficiently and managed to sleep!

What we learned

• Do a fresh install of Unity every time you do a hackathon
• Don't use Unity, Unreal is better

What's next for HolAR

• We want to try making the HolAR presentation more professional using glass rather than plastic
• HolAR machine learning repository can be vastly expanded to create a very large database of 3-dimensional objects

Built With

• c#
• java
• javascript
• photoshop
• unity