Interactive Coronavirus Data

Here is what it looks like

Inspiration

A few weeks ago, I found out about Unity VR, and fortunately I had an old daydream VR lying around. With that, I just hopped into VR and decided to create something similar to my previous coronavirus hackathon project: an informational program.

What it does

Unfortunately, my partner and I started severely late and realized that setup will take more time than we thought. We started out trying to use the Echo AR app but we ran into multiple problems using it, so we decided to not use it for time sake.

How we built it

I handled the UI while my partner handled the backend. I used unity to create the UI. My partner tried to retrieve information that we could display on the app; however, we realized that we needed to host our database on some service to retrieve our data and ran into a lot of problems

Challenges we ran into

Honestly, the program doesn't work. But one challenge we ran into was trying to connect unity with our database. We decided to use mySQL database to write our data into. We didn't have time to host our server and write code to retrieve and input data, so we left that out. Other that, the UI wasn't to hard to put together and I didn't have any problems with that.

Accomplishments that we are proud of

I am proud of the UI that I built. I like the feel of it and I know that if we were able to get it working it would look great. My partner would be proud of his work that he put into trying to set up the database and put data into it.

What we learned

Obviously, that time is everything. If we managed our time better and planned this out better, we wouldn't have as many problems. Also, to start simple. I think we overestimated and next time we will make sure that we know what we are up against and exactly what tools, languages, APIs, etc. we need.

What's next for Interactive Coronavirus Data

First thing is to actually get the project working. We would start with the database and guarantee we can get that working. I would also make sure that I can retrieve the information from the database when the app is running on my phone. Lastly, if we can get this working, we would just expand the UI more, including more features like interactability, graphics, etc.