( 2009 Fall Semester | 2010 Spring Semester )

iPhone Application with Augmented Reality - Photo Earth Live

(Former named: IK0903 Open Project)

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Supervisor

Prof. KING Kuo Chin, Irwin

Students

KUNG Chun Kit YEUNG Shing Yuen

• With animated toolbar & landscape mode
• Able to select photo for uploading purpose (with alert as a indicator currently)

• Able to locate and zoom to the user current location
• Showing buttons (and search bar for further development)

• Using camera on iPhone

• Switching view when iPhone is in landscape and portrait mode

• Allow downloading image from server
• Overlaying image on the Camera

* Only compare features will be developed in phase I.

Last updated: 13th October, 2009

Photo Earth Live(PEL) is an iPhone application that let people see the World in live though iPhone. The main purposes are to provide the live view of the World and event's photos based on the geographical information. To provide a brand new experience on how photos are viewed and shared. It also provide a social network platform as letting people browsing around to know more about their friends and familiar places they know very well. As everyone can upload the photos and view the photos immediately after the upload was made, much more tiny little things can show around the World what the culture at the specific place.

1. To let users find out photos taken on a specific area.
2. To let users view photos according to the direction of the view

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iPhone place at level mode and landscape. The app will first try to locate the place when start up the app and showing the photos based on the location information.

The above is a reference screen from Panoramio

After pressing the right hand corner of view 1, a tab bar pop out and let user choose various functions.

When we chose upload, a view which is similar to iPhone photo library mutli-select will show and let user choose set of photos to upload.

This is a setting page when choosing setting from view 2. Most of the app setting will be showing here.

This view will only be shown while the iPhone is in standing position and in portrait. More details will be showing on follow(view 6).

This is the details view of view 5, showing how the app displaying photos based on given information.

Sometimes user may want to see photos in a specific direction and distance or just simply tired on holding the iPhone standing. It will paused the location, direction service as well as the camera. Beside from these, other functions provided in view 5,6 will be provided.

Client / Users

iPhone 3GS

• GPS and compass information must be allowed to attach to the photo.
• with internet connection.
• installed iPhone OS 3.0 or above.

Server

• Server accepts internet connection from public internet network
• High performance - reply request in a short period of time

• Between iPhone & Server: HTTP

• Users are only allow to upload a limited amount of photos, at this moment, 100 photos would be set

1. Upload photos from the iPhone to the server
2. Display photos according to their geographic location on the map
3. Display photos according to their direction on the screen

1. Enough users from all over the world to upload photos to the server
2. All photos are with GPS & compass information
3. Photos uploaded is interesting and attractive to general users
4. Photos uploaded is with good quality
5. No hacker would be stealing information between transmission

1. The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language
2. Cocoa Fundamentals Guide
3. iPhone Application Programming Guide

• http://www.gwap.com
• The Gopher Game
• iPhone Dev Center - Apple Developer Connection
• Apple Developer Connection on iTunes
• Panoramio

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