Avride

We propose to develop a fully fledged tourist journey application that can provide an immersive tourist experience using AR/XR.

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Let’s take tourism to the Virtual World!

The Team

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Nevin Koshy Daniel

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Sreedevi S

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Thomas Jerry Arackal

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Neha Anil

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Milan Mani Mathew

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Shana James

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From Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kerala. Currently pursuing a Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, Graduating in 2022.

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The Concept

Tourism is all about experiences and seeing is believing over here. The pandemic has curtailed our travel, but what if we could experience it again? 9.2% of Indian GDP(~240$ Million) was contributed by tourism in 2018, and a loss of 5 lakh crores due to Corona. Let’s level up tourism, with AR and XR. The metaverse is coming, and let’s make the tourism journey a lot more inclusive & immersive, virtually!

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The Concept

• An AR visualization of prefered destinations using 360 degree videos to virtually visit the spot .

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• AR model of the Tourism Monument/Spot

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• User interactions along with analysing and prediction of user interests for improved efficiency.

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KEY FEATURES

• AR MODEL- A portal (AR Component) that opens at user’s location and other end is at the destination.
• VIRTUAL ASSISTANT-Interactive multilingual assistant that guides the user through different locations of the app.
• USER INTERESTS PREDICTION- Suggesting the suitable spots for a user according to his/her interests with ML algorithms and Survey.
• DATA UPDATION- Data about new tourist spots can be updated by user and administrator.

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USER INTERFACE

App Consists of

• Simple and convenient user interface
• Interactive virtual assistant to guide the user which works on text to speech and speech to text engines
• User search options and Navigation bars

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Target Audience and Market

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• Our target audience is the youth and middle-aged demographics for whom experiencing new places is a passion. We would like to essentially target all the audiences who are curious about tech and travel.

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• Diasabled person

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Personas

• The technology loving youth.

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• The tourist attraction & experience loving middle aged demographics.

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• A newer audience, could be the younger teens(> 16 year), who are looking to know more about the world.

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Feedback

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• We received a highly positive feedback among our peers, and most of them loved the concepts of immersive 360 video experiences, as it helped them explore the place a bit more.

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• The concept of AR models helped many of our friends understand the architecture and specialities of the monuments and tourist attractions.

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• Internal reviews, with a varying age group, had a very positive outlook and loved the feel of the application.

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How it works:

How it works

The core concept is to render a 3D model as an overlay that the user can experience through their devices.

• The content is requested by the user, and the data is fetched from the storage, and the user’s phone can then render the same content to give a unique 3D experience.

The content access data can be used to give valuable insights to the development team, and improve the services.

PROTOTYPE UI/UX

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The Business Plan:

We would like to move with a freemium model, where the base offering would be free, but more accessibility will be unlocked to the customers who are providing the necessary financial support to the company.

We would offer some spots to all, but the highlight spots would be premium.

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Core Technologies

• UNITY
• FLUTTER
• AR CORE
• AZURE REMOTE RENDERING
• AZURE CLOUD STORAGE

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NFT Integrations

We would like to NFT based Souvenirs as a way of in-app purchase and monetisation, to add further revenue capabilities, and support the tourist attractions. It can be specifically unique to the given place, or be part of a batch collection.

Additional Works / Future Works

• Cloud base Storage Implementation

To make the application less acquiring space of the device storage, we aim to create a cloud based content delivery system

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• Interactive virtual assistant to provide better user experience and guidance
• TTS Engines and Accessibility Support

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• Cloud based Rendering Implementation

To bring high quality 3D contents any device using this application, we aim to incorporate a cloud based rendering system, so that the user can experience the magic hassle free on any device.

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Competition

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We believe we are pioneering the unique approach to this solutions. Inbound novelty, but comparison can be drawn on.

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Apps that provide services in a similar vein could be

• Senditur - Spanish Exploration App
• World Around ME - Locate Services around the place
• Smartify - Museum Exploration in AR
• NightSky - Explore the night and constellations in AR.

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There are elements in these apps, which we could look to emulate.

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THANK YOU