Campus Event App - New Exploration for Mobile Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality (AR) enhances the real world environment with virtual information by embedding virtual objects in the real world to enhance the user’s life experience. Although AR technology has been around for fifty years, it has not been widely applied in practice until recent years when mobile phone technologies became more mature. Researchers have started to investigate the combination of AR and mobile phone technology ‒ mobile AR ‒ due the popularity of mobile devices. Mobile AR is a new and expanding area, and there are many research opportunities in the mobile AR field. The purpose of this project is to build a mobile AR application ‒ the Campus Event App ‒ as a means of demonstrating how mobile AR technologies can be used in combination with other applications to produce a useful and practical tool. The app brings new user experiences to event searching based on a combination of AR, mobile technology, and global positioning system (GPS) location-based techniques. The application is intended to help users to find daily campus events by visualizing events over the real world and showing the map and route to the event in real time.