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Augmented Reality Solution for Ski
The product is represented as glasses for skiers. These glasses allow you to communicate with other people during skiing and see a map with participants. A skier can listen to music while riding, switch tracks, stop and resume playback, change the volume etc.
Map rendering problem
The application required a map where user can see resort related point of interests such as ski elevators, ski routes, shops, quest locations and other helmet users.
Essential feature of the map is ability to see real-time movement of all active helmets on the hills. Also, it is important to update point of interests over internet connection without manual interaction with helmet.
We investigated different approaches and tools to build such map, but all of them have issues such as no acceptable quality of datasets or requirements for high speed internet connection what isn't possible in mountains.
We developed custom render for OpenStreetMap datasets.
We created importer to generate all required data to build map. The map render was built as component for game engine Unity3D. It has support for height map, remote dataset updating, real-time data updating so each user knows where their friends are.
