AR-PiZero — Augmented Reality for IoT

Do you remember your first IoT experience?

Because I do, when i first stepped in the world of IoT using Raspberry Pi, the experience was something like this:

Each one of us has suffered from the complex schematic of Electronic Chips while building products and if we see it from a Newbies perspective all it looks like an impossible quest.

So What did I build?

AR-PiZero is a SparkAR application which provides an immersive Augmented Reality experience using Facebook Camera.

Spark AR Studio lets the user design, build and share an AR experience across all platforms using Facebook Camera. It also provides a rich variety of 3D assets in its AR library. Moreover, users can also publish their AR models onto the AR library and can share them with the community if you were able to manage the size of the whole package to less than 20 MB. I manage to do that so it’s not much of a concern.

So, AR-PiZero provides a complex GPIO pins schematic of Electronic Boards like Raspberry Pi Zero in a very simple and immersive AR experience, which is helpful for both professionals and students. Since Facebook has provided with an ecosystem that provides a great distribution advantage using Facebook Camera, manufacturer’s can even embed the QR Code on the chip itself, redirecting the user to the AR experience without any hassle i.e.

Finally the AR experience:

And it’s Open-Source!

Check out the repository on GitHub: AR-PiZero

Experience it here, all you need is a Facebook account: Try this effect in the Facebook camera