ARchitect - A Multi-user Augmented Reality Application

Introduction

This repo contains the dissertation and applied project completed as part of my Bsc in Software Development at GMIT.

Full Presentation available here.

Details

Project Details
Course	BSc (Hons) in Software Development
Module	Applied Project and Minor Dissertation
College	GMIT Galway
Student	Daire Ní Chatháin
Project Supervisor	Dr. Brian McGinley
Module Supervisor	John Healy
Project Title	An Exploration of Multi-user Augmented Reality and its Application in Architecture

Outline of this repository

1. Project Source Code
2. Screencast
3. Dissertation
4. Latex files

Project Description

Shared Augmented Reality or multi-user augmented reality, allows multiple users to share a synchronized augmented space. Users see the same digital content simultaneously, creating a shared social experience that engages the users with the content, and with each other. Each user can view the digital content from their own perspective – a user on one side of the room may see the front, while a user on the other side sees the rear.

The primary goal of this project is to demonstrate shared augmented reality through the medium of a mobile application. The mobile application is intended to be used by architects and their clients as a means of promoting communication and collaboration.

The system is composed of three primary components, a cross-platform mobile application for viewing and sharing architectural models using AR, a database for storing augmented reality models and sessions and finally, a CRUD web application for managing and uploading models to the database.

Running the Mobile Application

The mobile application is packaged as an Android application. The .APK is located in the AR- Application/ProjectCode/MobileApp directory of this project. The APK can be transferred to an Android device and installed via the device's instructions.

Running the web application

1. Download the installer for Node.js 6 or greater.
2. Install the ionic CLI globally: npm install -g ionic
3. Git Clone this repository to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/DaireNiC/AR-Application

4. Change directory into the project code folder

cd AR-Application/ProjectCode/WebApp

5. Run npm install from the project root.

Run `ionic serve` in a terminal from the project root.

Project video