Week 44 - XR assignment part I

 Week 44 - XR assignment part I

Contributor: Ionut


This was the first week working on the 4th Assignment. This one was pretty much a free for all, meaning we could use any technology we have learned about throughout this course. On Thursday morning our team met online to decide if we wanted to do an AR or VR project and discuss ideas. During that meeting it was decided to create an AR app which we would use for indoor navigation on the new (and way more convoluted) VIA campus. 


Once we knew what we wanted to do, we began looking into how to implement this. We discovered two SDKs that could be useful and make implementation way easier, ArWay and Stardust. In the end it was clear that using these SDKs would feel a bit like cheating so we decided to do things the harder way and not use them. 


That afternoon I met Kasper on campus and talked about our idea. He gave us the green light and agreed to help us get our hands on some campus floor-plans we could use.

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