Augment Fulda

Augmented reality application to help new students of University of applied sciences Fulda to track university buildings.

Motivation

Since the university comprises of more than 30 buildings it is really hard for a new comer to find a particular building unless he/she goes near to every building and check the label mounted on the wall. Furthermore, it is itself a struggle to find the board where exactly it is :-). Although I am here for more than 6 months but I still struggles to find out a building that's not common for students of computer science department. Considering the mentioned issues I found augmented reality application the best option to solve this problem. So I present students of Fulda my Augment Fulda application, I hope it will help them track network of buildings.

Features

• See geo pointers with building (name) label being augmented on the actual building realtime in the live camera.
• Pointers will change size according to user's distance from them. If user is at distant location they will be smaller otherwise they will resize bigger accordingly.
• All available pointers will be shown in the small radar as white dots over the radar.
• Click on pointers visible on live camera to check a particular building's details. For instance offices in that building, available labs as well as distance from current location.
• Click on the show images button in the bulding details panel to see selected building's inner and outer images.
• Selected pointer will be shown in Blue on the radar.
• View the direction of buildings in the live camera using radar.
• View the list of available university's buildings by tapping on the radar.
• See the actual position of a particualar building with the help of direction indicator by selecting a building name from the list.
• Point the camera on a particular building and check which building is this with the help of building detection.
• Once a building is recognized, a banner with building details will be augmented on the live camera until building is within the scene.
• Click on the augmented banner to check the official details available on the university website. In app web browser will be opened.

Support

This application is made for latest Android only but support IOS as well after some minor configurations. Currently support data related to 11 buildings of the university. Supports SDK >= 24

Technologies Used

• Java
• Javascript
• JQuery Mobile
• HTML5
• CSS
• Wikitude SDK

Live Demo

A picture is worth a thousand words. Please check the video below to see the application in action.