Immersive experience travel application 

Trip App

It may have happened to you that you looked at beautiful pictures on the Internet before visiting a tourist attraction. In the end, it didn't look as fantastic as it did in the pictures, it was disappointing.

The technology of virtual reality is a relatively new and still developing technology. Immersive video is 360 videos shot with a 360-degree camera to create 360-degree footage. As opposed to 2D videos, 360 videos allow us to see the surrounding images as well as to feel immersed while wearing VR glasses (360-degree video, 2020).

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Figure 1 360-degree image 

Goal

Designing a travel application

In order to allow tourists to judge whether the travel destination meets their needs, I will design an immersive travel application. It can not only help tourists judge but also help people who cannot travel long distances to travel online.

This app will use insta360 One R as a tool for shooting 360 videos and will combine with DJI drones to shoot long-distance videos. Prototyping will use Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere as post-processing tools.

        Field Test 

        Testing tools and locations

• Testing was made using Insta360 One R, DJI Mini, and DJI Mavic.
• Scotch tape and masking tape as fixing tools.
• Green Lake State Park Onondaga Lake Park, Taughannock Falls State Park, Havana Glen Park , Everson Museum of Art 
  

Figure 2 Field test

Functional Description

Design and Prototype

• Choose a destination, and the app will suggest popular attractions at that destination.
• The page for each attraction includes a weather forecast that shows the temperature and humidity, as well as the time of sunrise and sunset.
• Provide 360-degree video scenes of the place, the user can enter the experience and judge whether it meets their needs.
• Following the immersive experience of the attraction, the user can return to the search interface to seek out other destinations. Based on the previous search on the same page, the system recommends nearby attractions to users.
  

Scene Demo

The current prototype still has a lot of functional imperfections, such as route planning and trip classification based on user preferences. It will also be challenging to develop the app in the future if we conduct more field testing. The following views show the scene immersive experience and application demo. Drag the screen to see the effect:

Scene immersive experience

Application Demo (Watch on Youtube)