See Covid

Inspiration

Walking around NYC, you really want to know how badly hit your neighborhood and the surrounding areas are by covid-19, so that you could avoid highly-infected areas and be aware of upticks.

What it does

Our app uses AR to show you live covid stats superimposed on your camera view, updates the data automatically, and shows you the stats of all the neighboring zip codes, anywhere in the city of New York

How we built it

Using A-Frame, a web AR/VR framework that allows you to write HTML like syntax for 3-d environments, integrated that with device API's including geolocation, motion & device orientation, and camera. We aggregated data from the city of New York and built an algorithm that superimposes this on the zipcode you're currently in and for the surrounding zip codes, displayed by where you are pointing your phone.

Challenges we ran into

We've never done AR before; had to learn from scratch. The dev environment took really long to develop. It was hard to find good city data; most publicly available data is on the county level, but we wanted lower level data for more location specificity

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Mastering AR and integrating live covid data with zip-code, and getting auto-updating the covid data

What we learned

How to use AR, automatically refresh data from github, query and arrange zip-code coordinates, latitude and longitude, running this all out of herokuapp.