GoPortal

Inspiration

Are you tired of the same old-fashioned way of exploring cities and travel destinations? GoPortal offers a unique, engaging, and trackable experience that lets you explore areas in a way you have never seen before. Our augmented reality (AR) app uses portals at landmarks, museums, and shops that lead to virtual rooms where you can leave digital assets and see who has visited before.

What it does

With GoPortal, you can receive push notifications when you're close to a portal and follow suggested routes. The app is packed with features like social media integration, AR games, challenges, personalized recommendations, and collaborations. It's commercialized through partnering with businesses, selling virtual items, and using location-based ads. The target audience is 15 to 35-year-olds who own a smartphone and have an interest in gamified and AR city exploration.

How we built it

We built GoPortal using a range of tools, including Figma, Xcode, Swift UI, Reality Kit, Reality Composer, Reality Converter, and Blender.

Challenges we ran into

We faced some challenges along the way, such as connecting the HoloLens to our computers and getting the right file formats.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Despite the challenges, we're proud of what we've achieved with GoPortal. We have a clear vision for our app, a working prototype, and multiple designs and developed ideas for future iterations of the application.

What we learned

We learned a lot from building GoPortal, including how to work with multiple programs and integrate their outputs into one solution. We also learned about working in a multi-cultural group setting in a time-pressure environment.

What's next for GoPortal

With our prototype at hand, we plan to move forward by building an MVP and trying it out on the Georgia Tech campus. We aim to raise a pre-seed round to enable scaling across university campuses in Georgia and gain our first paying customers for in-app ads and branded portals. We will then raise our seed round and scale across the U.S. Ultimately, we aim to conquer the world and enable everyone to experience their surroundings in an innovative way.

If you want to learn more about GoPortal, feel free to explore our PowerPoint presentation stored on GitHub.