miniARchive

Augmented Reality app to recognize "mini me" statues inside Internet Archive HQ using ARKit Edit

The Scheme

• User taps screen
• image is sent to backend
  • compares against pictures of statues using imagemagick compare.
    • for now, just 4 from 9/23/2017 (brewster, ted nelson, jason scott, tracey)
  • returns person's name of the "best match"
• adds new ARAnchor (2d SpriteKit) to hover over where picture was taken
• Anchchor (text label) will remain "flat" and always facing mobile camera

Just now "tapped" my (actual) photo and it identified me from the lineup!

the interesting code is here

Created app via

• began with SpriteKit (xCode 9)
• modified to get current picture from camera upon 'tap'
• mods to send picture and receive answer from server
• mods to change the default SpriteKit marker to text (name reply from server)