Landmark

Feed where you can view what everyone is posting
The comments on a particular post
Directly Message fellow Landmark users
Enter a room and place your desired 3D object in world space. The object can be set as public or followers only
The profile page of a user where their bio, followers, following, posts, interests and places visited are visible to their followers.
The travel home which gives information about the weather of a place. It also provides a 360 view of selected places and activities to do.
The Planner helps one plan a trip. It gives information like the timezone of a place, and other information like Visa Requirement.
Highlights the restrictions on Travel to a particular city or country.
Uses amadeus API to provide safety information about a country.

Inspiration

We inspire to be the new social media of the AR community. Social media influencers have impacted the lifestyle of many people, we were inspired to use such influencers to inspire people to travel. We were driven by the line 'The World is Your Social Media'.

What it does

LANDMARK is a platform which puts a new perspective to social media, it feeds the demands of the people who are always in search of something new, something different. LANDMARK brings a whole new kind of being social, one where you don’t just put up images and videos, but a place which you can see, feel and recognize through your eyes. Travelling is a cycle which consists of three fundamental parts - planning, the travelling, and then the showing off, posting photos, which in turn, inspires other people to go and travel to these locations. Our app covers this entire cycle.
It allows the user to place 3D objects all around the world. These objects are either open for the public to view or just the followers of the user. You and also post other photos and videos on our app, chat with fellow users to plan trips, hitchhike, etc. The possibilities are endless.
We also have a planner that helps you plan your trips. It includes information like Visa requirements, travel restrictions, safety and activities in a particular city or country. It also provides information about the weather and timezone of the location.

How We built it

We used Unity Game Engine to build the entire app. We further used google cloud anchors for our AR application and used APIs for Sherpa, ipapi, openweathermap etc. We used google's firebase for login and authentication and even the realtime database.

Challenges We ran into

Our application is huge and it was near impossible to complete it in the span of three days. Implementing the Augmented Reality part was challenging since almost all useful SDKs were off the shelf. We had to learn a lot to implement the idea that we had.

Accomplishments that We are proud of

We have made a new brand of social media , we thought of a ridiculous idea and we implemented it in under three days, we came together as a team and we are really proud of that.

What We learned

We learned about APIs, backend development, UI/UX and moreover about marketing and product design.

What's next for Landmark

We plan to make the app a one stop shop for all the travelers, for this we have planned to implement flight, train and hotel bookings from within the app itself. We also plan to add a feature that allows users to click and post pictures with the 3D objects they have placed leading to a whole new set of possibilities. We also plan to collaborate with influencers and travel websites to organize events through our app which will help improve travel. We also plan on using an IoT based system which will be installed in partner restaurants using which we could inform the user about the number of people present so that the user can make an informed decision of visiting the place or not at that particular point of time.