GlobetrottAR

Get ready to experience history from
an entirely new perspective

Using augmented reality technologies, GlobetrottAR takes you
around the world in less than 80 days. Simply amazing.

Follow the path of legendary world explorers Francis Drake and Marco Polo as they boldly go where no man had gone before.

GlobetrottAR puts you in the driver's seat, giving you complete control over the experience.

Take a chill pill! This is simply a cool project that our team created.

How it works

Using GlobetrottAR with your Android phone, aim your camera onto the globe to see an augmented explorer travel the earth along with facts about the travels, all controlled by a scrollable timeline.
Project goals

We wanted to create an exploratory experience using augmented reality technologies in tandem with a tangible and classic object - an actual world globe.
Technologies used

We used Unity together with Vuforia to track the globe, along with Maya and Blender to create the 3D models.
Challenges

Tracking the globe consistently has been the biggest challenge, as it does not have clear edges for Vuforia to track. As Vuforia isn't open source, that also made it harder for us to tailor the experience.
Lessons learned

Spherical image tracking is hard, especially if you use a locked framework with limited to no possibility of customizing the tracking behaviour.
Related work

Tracking A Sphere With Six Degrees of Freedom

Globe4D, Time-Traveling with an Interactive Four-Dimensional Globe

Feel free to take a look.

We are five students studying our fifth and final year of the Media Technology program at KTH.
This project is the result of the second part of the course Advanced Graphics and Interaction.