Aplicación móvil con animación 3D utilizando Realidad Aumentada para el Museo del Observatorio Astronómico de la ciudad de Quito

Abstract

This project shows the process of the creation of an Augmented Reality application for the Quito Astronomical Observatory´s Museum. The development platforms used were Unity and Vuforia for the augmented reality (AR) part. The application has a menu that allows access to instructions and seven different AR scenes. The seven scenes are: a greeting and introduction, earth´s atmosphere, a black hole, the meridian circle telescope, the solar system, seismographs and, the Merz telescope. The solar system scene can be accessed outside the institution through a button within the instructions that takes the user to a web page. The application is available in the Play Store free of charge. Users can download it and visit the Observatory´s Museum, where they can find the images needed to run the augmented reality (AR) scenes.