Beacons AR Mobile Application

Beacons is a new Augmented Reality app that allows users to find and discover new places them, and share messages with each other. There are two modes to the app: Messages mode and Places mode. In messages mode, users can point their camera to place temporary virtual messages for other people to see, allowing narratives to be created around places. Messages mode saves the spatial data in persistence in order for other users to experience the same message later on. In places mode, users can discover new places through virtual tooltips that appear above the location of each place. The geographical coordinates of each of the places are retrieved from the Google Places API. Other attributes such as rating, type, open status are also retrieved from the API. The AR scene is powered by ARKit in iOS 12 and Core Location.

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Miguel Guerrero is an entrepreneur, developer and innovator. At age 14, he created the world’s largest Minecraft server, and since then has been positioned at the forefront of the entrepreneurship community. Miguel cofounded TABu, a mobile payment processing app that was featured on Apple's new television show, Planet of the Apps, and was mentored by Gary Vaynerchuk. Miguel founded MeepLabs, a creative software company which specializes in cross platform solutions such as React Native to reduce development costs for businesses. He regularly works with other entrepreneurs and innovators to develop new solutions for the world’s problems.