I also want to take this chance to express my gratitud to
the people who supported me all this time, in particular:
--Pablo García and
Antonio Manuel Silva Luengo, professors at the UNEX who supported me as
counselors during all this time. Your help was invaluable for to many reasons to
write here, I just want to highlight three, first your attention-to-detail
attidude which required a lot of additional work but, in the end, made the
project go from 'good enough' to 'outstanding' and it certainly proved
worthwhile; second, your 'keep going, you can do it' attiude you showed all the
time; third, your willingness to find time to meet and review the work once and
again until everything was as good as it could possible be.
--Mom and dad.
Obvious but not less important. They never had any doubt of me not finishing the
project but achieving an outstanding grade. Also for the help in the research
and, of course, the speeches for the mobile AR app.
--My brother. For a lot of
things but, in particular, for finishing your degree before me and then teasing
me a little. That gave me the final push. I dind't forget that bed we did
regarding who was going to end first ;).
--Miguel García. For his feedback and
help regarding the website. Even being incredibly short of time he still found
some to lend a helping hand.
--To a few more people which would make a post wich
is already too long even longer. You who supported me when things seemed to be
going south and were at my side to celebrate after passing... thank you!!
Now,
about the project itself, it's composed of two different cool applications. The
first one is a Mobile AR which uses Augmented Reality to provide a better
experience from a paper-printed brochure. The target for this was to provide an
idea and works as proof-of-concept of 'what can be done' for people in charge of
the Villuercas Ibores Geopark. The goal of the project was to distribute a few
hundreds of brochures though with the COVID-19 situation that was ultimately
impossible (and I had the brochures printed in December 2019 so I have plenty of
them in case you want any 😅 ) so, in the end, only a small set of people could
watch it (mostly the aforementioned 'people in charge' and the people related
with the project). You can watch the thing working in the next video:
For the second application (far more challenging and cool... at least from my
point of view as it involved huger challenge; is essentially a suite for
building adventure 'Monkey-Island-style' games made absolutely from scratch plus
a few demonstration scenes) I don't have a video recording yet so I will publish
it in a new post soon. Thank you for reading!!
