AR Experience
MIT Friezes
For the final project in Mobile Operating Systems and Applications (CSCI E-76), a course taken
through Harvard Extension School, I was part of
a two-person team to create an AR application to provide information about historic scientists
and engineers whose names were inscribed on a series of friezes along the top of buildings
around MIT's central Killian Court.
Role: Concept Originator, Partner Developer
So often people walk by buildings with inscribed names but do not know what those names represent. As our final project in Mobile Operating Systems and Applications class, a partner and I created an iOS iPhone app which could be pointed at friezes on buildings around Killian Court, and provide images and information about the personages inscribed in stone.
The app was location-based, so would only work around Killian Court. Users could look at the friezes through their iPhones and get a clickable image, which retrieved information about groups and individuals depicted on the frieze.
Having taught iPhone/iOS development classes the previous year, I was able to use knowledge of Xcode and Objective-C.
Responsibilities
- Help conceive of the concept
- Help develop the augmented reality (AR) capabilities, without the use of ARKit
- Develop Objective-C iOS functionality to use iPhone location and orientation to identify which frieze was being referenced by the user
- Conduct research of the images of the people inscribed on the friezes, have artwork created as caricatures, both as individuals and groups, and format the completed artwork
- Create a compass feature to orient the user and aid them in locating the friezes in Killian Court