History Adventour is an app built with the idea to help people to learn in a fun way about the history of a city, the idea start one day I saw several tourists trying to understand the history of a historic carácter in a park, and they could not understand it because it was in Spanish, then an idea came to my head, how can I help others to understand the history in their own languages?
Bringing together various programming tools such as firebase, vue.js, html, unity and a team ( Roberto Rondon- Data base, Julian Archbold- html, API ), Jose Ramirez My self as - Unity Ar environment an model Designer), thus History AdvenTour was born.
this is a GPS-based mobile application that helps tourists, students and everyone to find historical landmarks throughout the city in a realistic augmented reality environment where you can find the 3D model of the place or historical character and interact with it in different languages (written or in audio) to get to know it, also helping people with reduced vision or hearing.
My personal Focus was to add the Ar environment and interactions to the app, also i create the UI based on the app name, to transmit that energy and feeling of adventure.
I live in the city of Cartagena de Indias in Colombia, a city that is among the most recommended tourist destinations in the world, and when I walk through the historic center, the walls, the clock tower, squares and parks, many times I run into many tourists trying get to tourist sites, starting from there I found many shortcomings that this city has in the case of making our history known first-hand in other languages and even more difficult when trying to bring these stories to people with reduced hearing or vision, always I liked Cartagena for its fantastic and historic streets, which silently narrate the events that took place.
At the time of assembling this puzzle we use several programming tools
The result was a great experience, i complete the first AR 3D model of “catalina the indian” , whent i saw her standing in front of me I could feel that she was alive!
At the end of the first test we got a historic chracater geo localized, that tell to every one her hsitory and not only on spanish, she also speak on english!!, yeah!! with subtittles!!!, at the same time my team finish the landing page and conect it with the recently finished data base !!!
The most difficult challenge was learning how to use unity and 3d image modeling, and The most difficult in non-technical area speaking, was gathering information about how catalaina “the indian” looks like. Because there’s no physical description about her, we proceed to create a 3D base model from a description of how the native people dressed at that time.
It is true that we can create applications without having experience, just by daring and reading manuals and watching video guides on the internet, many times we get stuck but we can go to help groups where many people will be happy to help you solve problems.
What i might do differently? well Ask more and more without fear of being pointed out as ignorant of something that I do not know.
What i learned about myself as an engineer? i dont have limits, I can do anything that I propose, Sometimes the way will be difficult but never impossible
This project informs my engineering path in the future, in the way that we do not know many things, but with a lot of dedication and study we can learn many things that we did not imagine we could do.
Unity is not the one and only best tool to create Ar apps, you can explore many more as Unreal and you will find differents way to give life to your imagination.
Jose Gustavo Ramirez Anillo: Technician, programmer, pet lover, video game lover and collectionist.
