2nd AR Project - LEARNING through AR!

2nd AR Project - LEARNING through AR! - Week 40

Week 40

The second project of the mixed reality course aims to develop an educational application with Augmented Reality, with some different tools that allow us to discover the wide range of possibilities that this technology has to offer.

This time we will work with ARCore and ARKit. Those tools provide us with better methods for localization and mapping purposes. ARKit fares better in reliable tracking and ARCore leads in mapping and reliable recovery. Besides that it provides the developers with some usefull libraries regarding the use and treatment of color temperature and intensity.

Like any development process of a technological product we started brainstorming some of the ideas that we thought would be nice to implement as a project with educational purposes. The first idea was to show the skelleton of a person with labeled bones but we thought it was kind of classic and basic idea that has been implemented many times and it has not much logic behind it. We also hesitated about showing the muscles labeled but that might be a bit difficult. Another idea we came up with was showing a paint in its real size in a specific wall, but we thought that maybe there was not much interaction with it.

Finally we made the decision of implementing an app that could be usefull for people who study or works on design, decoration and interiorism. Sometimes decisions related with which colours fit the most in a certain canvas are the most time consuming, as it needs to be tested with real paint on the wall with diferent shades of it. The cost is high as well as you need to test diferent samples to see which of those fit better.

So, starting from the need explained above, we decided to implement an AR app that allows us to paint the walls of the house in the selected color to be able to preview the result before making unpremeditated or very expensive decisions.

Play with the project in: https://github.com/Yasin-0109/AR-WALL-COLORING ;)

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