brief readme thanks claude
Look through deep time.
Amber is a paleogeographic AR app that transforms your surroundings into a scientifically accurate window into prehistoric Earth. Point your phone at the world around you and see what that exact location looked like millions of years ago — grounded in real plate tectonic reconstruction, paleoclimate data, and fossil records.
Field Mode — Walk your real environment in AR. GPS anchors the experience to your exact location. As you move, the prehistoric world moves with you.
Explorer Mode — Browse an interactive 3D globe from anywhere. Drop into a first-person view of any location on Earth at any point in geological time.
Group Walk — Join a shared session with friends. Walk the same prehistoric world together, see each other as avatars in real time.
- iOS — Swift, ARKit
- Android — Kotlin, ARCore
- Backend — Go
- Web — React
- GPlates Web Service — tectonic plate reconstruction
- PALEOMAP Project — paleogeographic maps
- PaleoClim — paleoclimate surfaces
- Paleobiology Database — fossil occurrence records
Amber is in active development.