Rescu-AR

Screenshot from our application

Inspiration

Cardiac arrest can come out of nowhere. From statistic gathered from 2017, 46.1% of those incidents outside of hospital had bystanders performing CPR with only a 12% survival rate. We wanted to create a way for a bystander who hasn't has great training to be able to help. Our vision is that we want it to work for all kinds of medical emergencies.

What it does

Rescu-AR uses augmented reality to guide someone who has never used it through CPR and AED steps to try and save a life.

How we built it

Vuforia API and Unity for the main application with some C# running to provide logic to the augmented reality

Challenges we ran into

No one in our group had done augmented reality before this project. We also had no clue what project we were going to do when we showed up.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating a life saving device. Learning augmented reality and seeing what was just an idea flourish into a working prototype.

What we learned

Augmented reality, C#, Unity, Vuforia, 3D object creation.

What's next for Rescu-AR

Expand to multiple emergency scenarios so that we can save as many people as possible.

Built With

Submitted to

HackISU IX Spring 2018

Created by

I worked on the Unity application with the modeling and augmented reality. Also wrote some C# code for minor animations. Learned a ton about augmented reality. Never knew it coming into the hackathon.

Jacob Linch
I worked on implementing AR using Vuforia through Unity. This was very challenging, as I had never used any AR library or Unity before, and had relatively little Android experience either. Ultimately all the pieces came together, and I learned a lot about building Android projects through Unity.

Jacob Feddersen
I worked on our IOT devices to create an immersive experience for our hardware.

I was a leading force in the vision of the product, and did lots of pair programming with Jacob and Jake for the AR displays.

I used my knowledge of being through CPR training 8 times to program the steps and choose what to display given a diagnosis.

David Boschwitz
Creatively took a marching band flip folder for a picillo, along with a bit of modeling and 3D printing, to create an arm band phone mount. It holds the device horizontally so that the user can point the camera and see the virtual reality instructions easily.

I also used my 3D modeling skills to create the 3D mesh solids in the VR display.

I learned a ton on how to convert my models into different file formats, and even learned an entire new program to do that.

Alex Nielsen