Walk & Connect

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  Title screen

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  Set your movement goals

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  View your route

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  Main screen

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  Navigation panel

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  Login screen

Inspiration

We want to encourage people to move more by making it a social and immersive experience.

What it does

W&C generates a walking route near your current location and creates augmented reality (AR) checkpoints along the way. These checkpoints consist of your friends' images, videos or 3D models that you can see in your surroundings through just your mobile phone.

How we built it

We built a prototype using AR.js, which is a lightweight web library. It is used to create different types of AR experiences. Our web application uses the device's camera and GPS location to overlay media over the user's environment.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into compatibility issues with different browsers and devices. It also proved to be more difficult to include different types of media, often due to the lack of learning resources and our own lack of experience in this area.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of the design of the app mockup and the idea. We had a lot of fun making it and so we hope it would be even more fun to use. Even though we weren't able to achieve our initial goals of creating a user interface and adding 3D models in 48 hours, we are proud that we were able to get the technology to work using videos and images in specific locations.

What we learned

We learned to use Figma for design, to host a website on a server and we learned how to use and implement the AR.js library.

What's next for Walk & Connect

Firstly, it should be migrated to a mobile app instead of a web app. Secondly, we would develop a user interface with the functionality for uploading and storing files, setting movement goals, creating routes and adding friends. Thirdly, there needs to be a lot of work done to increase reliability, especially across different devices.

Built With

• 000webhost
• a-frame
• ar.js
• figma