Migli

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Main Screen
The assistant is running
Search Results
ARView with Arrow Guide

Inspiration

Migli is the virtual Assistent for your next shopping trip to your local Migros. You don't find any item in the Store and there is no Staff Member around who you can ask? Just take your Smartphone out of your pocket and start Migli. He will guide you to the products you are serching and speed up your grocery shopping.

What it does

It is possible to sesrch by Speech-to-text or by using the keyboard. Over the Products API will be a search performed for Products by a Keyword, like IceTea. The Customer can then select the Product in a List and an AR View will be opened to guide the Customer trough the store, like it is well known in navigation devices in cars.

How we built it

After the Elevator pitch we gathered some Ideas what is possible. We looked the Challenge for something absolutely new to us and we think that we tackled it well. After this first phase we invested some time in researching and reading documentation from Apple and some blogs, then we started coding.

Challenges we ran into

We had some issues with JSON Parsing because of the inserting into structs. Also a big challenge was to show animated gif images to let Migli Speak. AR is very complicated and needs more reading and learning.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

That we can deliver a POC which can be used by Migros to make decisions on what is possible and what is wanted by everyday customers

What we learned

A lot about Swift and SwiftUI. How to build Userinterfaces for native iOS Programming. We made first steps into the world of AR, sadly we had to mock the Store. To locate a customer in Store there must be a Beacon Network. Paired with the In-Store Layout Migli can Guide Customers to the Products they are searching. It needs some time for Migros to install these beacons in a test store so we can try it "out in the wild".