BuildAR and Layar Task Guides

BuildAR

1. Got to http://www.buildar.co.nz/ to get the BuildAR application, and watch the tutorials. There is a Free Version, which has limited functionality, but will suit your purposes, or there is a Free Demo of the Pro version, which has some extra features, but is "save" disabled. I suggest the Free Version to start with, but you may like to also try the Demo Pro version fro the added extras.
2. Find an interesting building on Google Warehouse, and open it in Sketchup. Export the model as an OBJ.
   (alternatively you can use your 3D reconstructed building model from last week)
3. Bring the OBJ model into BuildAR and visualize it using the "HIRO" marker. (The website tutorials will show you how to do this)

Layar

(Watch the tutorial video: http://www.vimeo.com/14584156 if you need a reminder of the process. Try to ignore repedative use of the work "quick" in the first 20 seconds)

1. Sign up for an account on http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
2. Take a look at the pipe used in the demo: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ded88584ab21d380387f9e6655f3c846, and the source: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=ded88584ab21d380387f9e6655f3c846
3. Clone this pipe, and "Run Pipe" to see the 3 outputs in the map view.
4. Open Google Maps in a new tab, and find the first point you'd like to add to the Layer. This should be within 10km of us. Right-click on the point and select "What is here?" to get the Latitude and Longitude.
   
5. Go back into the Yahoo Pipe source
6. Copy your latitude and longitude into the lat and long boxes on example georss item (the one with the image, not the sound)
7. rename the item, and fill in a description and image link to go with your location.
8. Add more "georss item builder" boxes. (these can be found by searching for "georss item" in the top right,and pulling them onto the main workarea), and enter other locations.
9. Run the pipe and check the map view to make sure everything is where it should be.
   
10. Right-click on "Get RSS feed", and copy the URL.
    
11. Open http://tinyurl.com/ in a new tab, and paste the RSS URL into the box. Make a note of the tiny URL that is output.
    
12. Test on a phone: Make sure you have the Layar App installed (it's free via app store), open Layar, search for the "GeoRSS gateway" layer, and open it. Click the gear icon and enter the tiny URL into the location box. Make sure "force cache refresh" is selected, and the search area is large enough. Your points should show up!