Aurasma / HP Reveal use with Geocaching?
Posted: 08 December 18 4:03 pm
I came across an app called Aurasma/HP Reveal today, and after trying it out, I figured it could be used for geocaching. The only problem is that geocachers without a smart device can't access it.
from wiki: "Aurasma/HP Reveal is an augmented reality platform. It is available as a software development kit or as a free app for iOS- and Android-based mobile devices. Aurasma's image recognition technology uses a smartphone's or tablet's camera to recognize real world images and then overlay media on top of them in the form of animations, videos, 3D models and web pages."
A quick search of you tube will show you what the app can do.
It could be used as part of a multi - once you get to the co-ordinates you need to look for the object in a photo to activate the activate the media overlay to get the next information for the next stage, be used to get information about a cache (i.e. the history of where you are visiting) or even turn an object in to a travel bug/trackable kind of thing; the cacher finds the item, activates the media overlay to get the tracking code.
I have tested it on a travel bug, and it has worked, so I think it might be worth investigatin further.
I can't see Geocaching HQ allowing the use of this technology (or have they?), but wondered if it would be something accepable to Geocaching Australia?
Maybe it could be a new type of geocache? The Augmented reality geocache?
from wiki: "Aurasma/HP Reveal is an augmented reality platform. It is available as a software development kit or as a free app for iOS- and Android-based mobile devices. Aurasma's image recognition technology uses a smartphone's or tablet's camera to recognize real world images and then overlay media on top of them in the form of animations, videos, 3D models and web pages."
A quick search of you tube will show you what the app can do.
It could be used as part of a multi - once you get to the co-ordinates you need to look for the object in a photo to activate the activate the media overlay to get the next information for the next stage, be used to get information about a cache (i.e. the history of where you are visiting) or even turn an object in to a travel bug/trackable kind of thing; the cacher finds the item, activates the media overlay to get the tracking code.
I have tested it on a travel bug, and it has worked, so I think it might be worth investigatin further.
I can't see Geocaching HQ allowing the use of this technology (or have they?), but wondered if it would be something accepable to Geocaching Australia?
Maybe it could be a new type of geocache? The Augmented reality geocache?