Luminary Promotions, coordinated by Ahmed Almukhtar, are a promotions company specialising in experiential advertising. They are a small team based in the Auckland CBD with Alexis Rabadan leading the development team. Luminary are investigating the possibilities of GPS technology integration, in order to produce an Augmented Reality ‘wayfinding’ application.

The project initially proposed an exploration into the possible uses of Augmented Reality to address the issue of the retention of their applications. The plan later changed to developing a platform for the Auckland Council by the time of our mid-project review. Unfortunately, due to contractual circumstances, the Auckland Council withdrew their proposal. We eventually agreed on a new scope for the project; the creation of two Unity plugins for GPS services and remote data deployment.

We faced a number of issues along our development that challenged us as a team, and as individuals. These challenges include three scope changes, overdue documentation, internal conflict and time management. It was the collaborative effort of the LuminAR group that enabled our ultimate success. The perseverance and commitment of the group allowed us to overcome the issues we faced, and our drive for quality resulted in the project’s impressive outcome.

This portfolio is an organised repository that records our journey; tracking our development from start to end through the use of timestamps.