Smoothy

What it does

Smoothy is a prototype for displaying generative AI output using geolocated AR.

I wanted to find the right context and task where both the output values from generative AI and the physical locations in geolocated AR would be explored together. A travel-assist app made perfect sense for this, and I chose Harvard Bridge that connects Boston and Cambridge/MIT with its painted smoot markers. (For details on "smoot", please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot)

In the Smoothy prototype, Gemini API is given a smoot marker number along the bridge, and is asked to return some relevant info with respect to MIT and that number. Geospatial Creator + Aero is then used to display the info at the location of the corresponding smoot marker.

Please note that, in the current version, Aero is not able to accept live external assets or data. Therefore I had to prototype this as 2 separate processes where I first generated the info then secondly created suitable assets for Geospatial Creator + Aero. A real-time version would be possible with Aero if a future version allows for live data access.