Inspiration
Playing Pokemon Go in the summer, made us want to enter the world of Augmented Reality. This being a Hackathon to try crazy new things, the three of us dove deep into a field of programming we had never before experienced. We just had to find a problem to apply this to. Searching on our phones for ideas, Sukhpal with his new Oneplus 3, we got into an argument about whose phone was more powerful. That's when we realized; we could apply this to comparing phones and settle our argument.
What it does
Our application shows a list of phones side-by-side with a selected phone that is lying over our ARM (augmented reality marker) mat. Tapping the screen cycles through different models, and has a short description of cost and specs.
How we built it
With a lot of research into augmented reality and software we could use to create it, we met Unity. Using Vuforia and some C# we were able to implement 3D models in augmented reality beside the ARM mat.
Challenges we ran into
The biggest challenge had to be fitting the models to scale that are being compared to the phone. This took several hours and multiple arguments.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
This whole project. We managed to dive deep into a field of programming we had never touched before and even produced a working proof of concept that actually compiles, runs, and WORKS.
What we learned
We learned how to use AR, a bit on live capturing of data, as well as working together as a team without cussing each other out.
What's next for ARggghh
We actually discussed this a lot. Since this is a proof of concept, we want to firstly expand on this then bring it to new markets. Firstly, we will add more phone models to cycle through, as well as add live feed data instead of static data regarding the phones. After this we will add the ability to cycle through phone colors and phone cases. Once we master the phone market we will move to shoes (cycle through different shoes and colors), shirts (compare a shirt that fits you to other shirts and colors/styles), and more!
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