Geographical Portal for educational purpose BLOG-1. Markless AR

Now compared to Markedbased AR, markerless AR is a bit more complicated and difficult to implement. Markedbased takes the use of image recognition whilst Markesless AR does not have that. It instead is a straight forward augmented reality that is displayed on top of the reality. An example is glasses that display images/objects on top of the real image you can see through the glasses. This could be furniture in the room. On top of this Markeless AR also has the ability to allow the user to interact with object in the Augmented reality. Move the furniture's around to see how they look in different spots of the room. 

Our Idea for this project is to create sort of portals that allow the user to step into a different place in the world. This could be used in geographical education as the students would be able to step into the "city" that they are currently being taught about. An example could be the city of Paris and allow the students to walk directly up to the Eiffel tower and see information about it history, maybe its construction and founder.   

With this in mind we spend the third session to both brainstorm the idea and if it plausible but also initiating the actual project and process. This includes created another github repository, finding the needed assets and also read/watch a bit about unities asset. We did try to insert google maps view into the unity platform but it ended up as a failure leaving us to use straight 3D models instead. As such we knew that the next session would be used to reform our project a bit and find the needed 3D models. Below can a simple 3D model be seen that we found this session. More will be needed though.

This is a 3D model found on Sketchfab 




                                                                                                                      Author: Jannik Schwarz-Wolf

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