AR - City Job Functions
AR can and possibly will be utilized by city employees.
- Parking Enforcement
- Construction/Utility Visualiztion
- Fleet Maintenance
- much further out... Public Safety (Indoor Routing for University, In-car Displays, VR for training)
However, there are a few things holding us back. First, these tasks will require specific hardware and expensive, custom software. Secondly, technology is rapidly evolving but current battery, form, and function cannot compete with labor savings.
Expensive hardware keeps us from evaluating these use cases too much, but what about AR for citizens?
AR - Citizen Usage
Citizens won't have special devices so the functionality will be limited to what they can do on their phone but makes researching easier. I found that for now it's limited to presenting information in an engaging method.
- Location Information (business, parks, facilities, or events)
- Development Plans (building overlays)
- Interactive Media (pictures and videos in view)
- Geocaching Contest (scavenger hunt)
Demos
WebAR is bringing Android/iOS sensors to web but is still evolving. Instead of testing the evolving web standards I looked at Android's ARCore SDK to demo specific functionalities.
- Topic
- Location Information
- Demo
- Brought cemetary data to AuGeo
- Evaluation
- Doable, better done by GIS.
- Topic
- Development Planning
- Demo
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Soccer Shed with Orange Roof
- Evaluation
- Doable, cost of 3D modeling may limit to rather controversial or hard to visualize projects.
- Topic
- Interactive Media
- Demo
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Construction Timelapse - Still to Video
- Evaluation
- Doable, but limited value compared to simply showing video. Easy enough though, could even do green screen mayor's notes.
- Topic
- Geocaching Events
- Demo
- None, spent too much time playing with 3D models
- Evaluation
- Needs some testing. I was able to drop an object onto the ground and cloud points looks easy enough but is untested.