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Erik Torenberg

Guidekick — Immersive 3D guides for all major city attractions (SF)

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Alex Miller
Wow, the UI/UX is surprisingly awesome. How did you achieve those cool 3d graphics?
Josh Holland
Maker
@fotoflo Thanks Alex! With a mix of old architectural plans, maps, and some LiDAR point cloud data, we were able to recreate each of the models (currently done by hand) to a really precise degree of accuracy. The lighting is applied through Unity at the end of the modeling process.
Marc St Raymond
Your very own little sidekick. Ohhhh, that's where the name comes from! :-P So awesome. Great work guys.
Josh Holland
Maker
@msaint Thank you sir Marc! <3
Cynthia Schames
Holy amazing design! Way to go you guys. I can see this having massive application for theme parks, music festivals, and all sorts of other things past the typical city attractions.
Josh Holland
Maker
@CynthiaSchames Cheers Cynthia, and you're spot on!
Steve Benjamins
Very cool! The guides look very sophisticated— are you developing a tool for users to be able to build their own guides? Or is creating the guides too technical?
Josh Holland
Maker
@stevebenjamins Thank you Steve - right now the process is very curated (difficult making crowd-sourced content high quality), but that's definitely something we'll be considering as Guidekick develops.