Interfaz de realidad aumentada para recomendador de sitios turísticos en Quito.

Abstract

This integrative project proposes the development of an augmented reality (AR) application to enrich the presentation of information in tourist recommendation systems for the historic center of Quito-Ecuador, for which an AR interface created in Unity and Vuforia is proposed to allow the user to interact with the virtual elements that represent the real points of interest (POIs) and their information. In parallel, the data and geographic coordinates of the POIs are obtained from an HTTP request to a Rest Api, this web service was previously developed in a degree work and temporarily hosted on a server of the Amazon Web Services platform. Next, the Haversine formula was used to locate 3D icons and update their position with respect to the user's position. Additionally, a view was developed for the representation of a 2D map which can be used by the user as a reference for its displacement through the Mapbox tool. Finally, the final product is a visually attractive AR tourist recommender, which displays useful information on a mobile device during a tourist visit.