- Description and usage
- Description
- A simple augmented reality application using “target cubes” (essentially paper cubes with special QR-code/images on each side) to superimpose found and self-generated models onto the physical cubes. The cubes are designed in such a way to be representative of certain cities or regions, in my case San Jose, California, and Indiana, United States.
- Usage
- PC + webcam
- Simply enter play mode in Unity or open the app build on PC with the webcam plugged into the PC. No further setup is needed past building the Cubes needed for the experience
- Mobile
- General: install the apk/ios file dependent on your platform of choice, run the package, and off to the races!
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- Repo/Page link:
- Asset Citation List
- Models
- Indiana
- Found
- -nelostudios:medieval build free [could pass as a storage shed lol]
- https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/exterior/house/build01
- -mehranita: vase pack
- https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/interior/living-room/vase-pack-1-1075f72b-beb5-476c-8dcd-5e375b04ce0c
- -pure3d: FREE Pine Trees Sample Model Free low-poly 3D model
- -https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/plant/conifer/free-pine-trees-sample-model-6ce9f61e2ff2bc4b922aeda874e96d5b
- Realistic Basketball Model
- https://free3d.com/3d-model/realistic-basketball-91072.html
- (ok this one was honestly pretty random, but I didn’t have time to try to model out a sphere and find a texture/good picture with height/normal maps and all of that)
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- Self-Generated
- steel_girder_pile
- gas_can
- Gas_pump
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- San Jose
- Found
- 3djesus:invntm
- https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/exterior/landmark/invntm-store
- haleycreeps:rick sanchez portal gun
- https://free3d.com/3d-model/rick-sanchez-portal-gun-79624.html
- slandey:aperture portal gun
- https://free3d.com/3d-model/portal-gun-portal-49947.html
- aelaman:housing estate
- https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/exterior/skyscraper/housing-estate--2
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- Self-Generated
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- Textures
- Found
- Black
- Included in base project
- Self-Generated
- glass
- black_glass
- indiana_glass
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- Sounds
- ambiances
- San Jose
- X365 TV: Sights and sounds of San Jose, the vibrant capital city of Costa Rica (1)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmDSKjwygaA
- note: ok this sound is kind of a bait and switch. This is actually a video of a walk through San Jose, Costa Rica, not San Jose, California. This one seemed a bit more interesting than the ambiances I was finding through YouTube for San Jose, California, though, and hopefully it isn't toooo much of a sticking point for people, and sorry in advance :)
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- Indiana
- Lew Sharpf: Identify Your Common Backyard Birds (Central & Eastern USA)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSiH4fAXkl4
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- Magic Eight Ball Clip
- Field Recording Working Group: Microblocks, vol. 2: Fuck the Police Ambiance and Percussive Noise Oakland and Berkeley, CA 11/23/14-12/7/14
- 06: Accidentals #1 [?]
- https://fieldrecordingworkinggroup.bandcamp.com/album/microblocks-vol-2-fuck-the-police-ambiance-and-percussive-noise-oakland-and-berkeley-ca-11-23-14-12-7-14
- To be completely honest, I threw in a completely random sample from my sample collection, and the file names are so long they have a habit of being shortened/borked when they’re moved around from place to place. As it stands, the file name seems to have been shorthanded to FI06B8~1, and I assume this was #06 - Accidentals #1 given the name.
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- Music
- Justification
- San Jose: the various bits and ends of technology (and strangely modelled buildings prone to inverting from scaling) are meant to show the San Jose as a nexus for Silicon Valley, and having so many of the world’s largest technology corporations, ideas, and innovations happening here, with a humorous spattering of pop culture references throughout.
- Indiana: The Indiana knickknack, on the other hand, is an interesting mix of both rural and industrial strength, and also in sports (hence the basketball model near the bottom of the cube). The gas can and gas pump is mainly because our family tends to drive over to Indiana for our gas, since it tends to be much cheaper over there than here in Chicago, ironically enough, and those gas trips tend to be how my family and I end up in Indiana a lot of the time.
- The “modern” sayings of the magic eight ball were overall fairly random, throwing in multiple childhood pop references both old and new (we have a “heart of the cards” YuGiOh reference directly next to song lyric references from a Baby Keem album and semi-trending meme from less than a week and half ago release). There wasn’t anything in particular that I was going for past whichever ones my (sleep-deprived) brain thought humorous at the time.
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- Project In Action
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- Further Discussion
- In terms of augmented reality technology, assuming we have mainstream AR-augmented technology available and priced to the masses, like a piece of eyewear or something similar, I would legitimately be more surprised if augmented experiences like Vuforia or Pokemon GO didn’t take off and be popular in a decade’s time. In fact, given we have eyewear-type devices like a Google Glass priced somewhere in possibly the $200-$400 range or even lower where the majority or everyone could get into this tech, I can’t see where this wouldn’t fundamentally change the way we interact with the world on a hardware and software level. Especially with tech like HoloLens and that level of interactivity already being available, I could immediately imagine many small life things being done virtually. We would likely have much less need for physical technology like cash registers, ATMs, physical restaurant menus and ordering procedures, and anything that could be hooked into an API. I can see a world where one can ask a navigation application for directions to a place, and their AR eyewear superimposing turning arrows and directions, crash reports, pulling up a map of where one currently is (hopefully when fully parked), and virtually receiving real-time instructions on where to go in the real world. I could imagine tourism and just being out in the world taking on an entirely new face, with looking at and scanning buildings and the AR technology spitting out history lessons and information about the world around them, the buildings they come across. The art world likely would be turned on its head as well, given the seemingly limitless possibilities of blurring the lines between reality and virtual reality (or simply thinking of the two as one singular reality, depending on who you ask). Especially if this technology is actually easy enough to extend I could see this kind of technology being popular at things like both live music virtual concerts, exhibits, just about every strain of science and tech (say, with taking a bio student through an interactive tour and lens view of the inner body one tends to not have a chance to experience firsthand until much later on in their careers).
- Documentation
- Some further documentation is available at: https://github.com/gravitas-navi/cs428_p1/tree/main/cs428__p1__visual__documentation