Flashbacks

What it does

What my app does: Recreate segments of symbolic historical event of a location with AR and give then-and-now answers to questions about the subjects relating to the event. It acts as a concept button for the Google Maps, offering a feature that is only applicable to those who is present at the place.

How I used the Gemini API:

- Created my tuned model with structured prompt. Input is about a subject and output is the then-and-now summary of the situation of the subject. The "then" refers to the period of April 30th, 1975 when the Saigon administration fell and marked the end of The Vietnam War.

- The subject can be something like "children", "adults", "markets", "political voices around the world towards the war", "the contemporary president of the U.S.", "cars", or "jobs", ... The output has to give insights into the subject and if applicable, the difference about the subject between Vietnam and the U.S. I use GPT-4o to generate the training data (Yes, I did double check some of it).

- Using the tuned model: I set the system instruction as "You have insights into the war from the perspectives of a diplomat, a soldier, a normal Vietnamese, and a normal American. You cherish the past that the two nations share and look forward to the future". Unfortunately, I haven't finished completely.