AREarth

AREarth is a cross platform app that can be used for students/professional to interactively learn about the environmental processes to creates awareness about the worldwide effects of climate change.

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AREarth

AREarth is a cross platform app that can be used for students/professional to interactively learn about the environmental processes to creates awareness about the worldwide effects of climate change through interactive storytelling, in ways that are more engaging and persuasive than standard approaches.

Install & Run

Dependencies

  • npm
  • nodejs

Build

 $ git clone 
 $ cd AREarth
 $ yarn install

Run

 $ yarn start

and point your favourite browser to localhost:3000

or use our live demo here

Usage

  • Open the page both in your phone and PC.
  • Toggle the target image on the PC screen 💻.
  • Scan the target image via your phone that's being displayed on the PC screen .
  • It will open the WebAR/VR experience (on any device) 📱 .
  • Enjoy 😉 !

Inspiration

Climate change, global warming, deforestation, and extinction are all on the global agenda at any given moment. It is generally acknowledged that global action is needed to resolve some of the most serious environmental issues exacerbated by human activity's adverse effects.

AR/VR in particular, has the potential to contribute to sustainability both directly by making certain processes sustainable, and indirectly by encouraging people to adopt more sustainable lifestyles.

The inherent immersiveness of VR combined with the realism of AR can help us connect with people at a visceral level, thereby highlighting the importance of sustainable living.

What it does

AREarth is a cross platform web app that can be used for students/professional to interactively learn about the environmental/geographical processes, that helps to educate people about the worldwide effects of climate change through interactive storytelling, in ways that are more engaging and persuasive than standard approaches.

How we built it

The project is built using AR.js which helps to develop cross platform Web AR/VR experience. The reason for choosing AR.js is it's

  • Very fast
  • Built on Web

The front end is built using react.js. It is hosted on github pages for live demo.

Challenges we ran into

Being new to AR the terminologies were difficult to understand, however articles and tutorials helped me to uvercome the difficulties. Hosting the web demo was a little hustle, however github pages came to my rescue.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are super happy and proud that we could bring our idea of using AR in creating environmental awareness. We were so happy that we made a whole finished product.

What we learned

Being new to AR , it was difficult to understand the theory and working principles of AR/VR technology. However this project helped in understanding the underlying concepts. What was magic for me a days ago is now science 😛.

What's next for AREarth

Currently it uses stored data of various environmental conditions/location. Streaming live data from around the globe is the next great thing happening for AREarth.

Besides that it will also support virtual scene/location viewing (e.g. Viewing the amazon rain forest).

Thank you for reading 😄

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