Hi. Thanks for reading. I've looked both in macrumors and on google but can't find anything quite on point. Thanks for being patient with me if I use the wrong terminology or state something obvious; I'm not normally in the app world.
There is a small nature preserve near where I live called Ruffner Mountain. It was mined heavily in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As you walk the various trails, you see that most of the equipment (pulleys, small railroad, etc.) was removed, but there remain some remnants, such as concrete footings, retaining walls, a "crusher," and some other odds and ends. However, when you come upon these remnants, unless you've read up on the site, you will likely have no idea what it used to be - what role it played in the mining operation.
Is there an app/software - perhaps an app with a computer "client" (I think that's the word) - for reconstructing what used to be there in three dimensions and so that you can see old structure as you hike? To use an example, there is a concrete slab on part of the mountain. I know from old photographs exactly what was on there. It seems like there should be a way that I can use my iPhone's location services/gyroscopes to film and photograph that slab, and then go home and build a 3D rendering of what was on it. And then I "upload" - or whatever the term would be - the 3D rendering so that when I - or anyone else who uses the same app - can hold the iPhone up at the site, the structure is in view.
To put it in a different context, it would be like walking around the Coliseum in Italy and holding up your iPhone, and some augmented reality app would fill in the missing parts for you so that you can see what it looked like originally.
Thanks for reading. Appreciate any thoughts.
There is a small nature preserve near where I live called Ruffner Mountain. It was mined heavily in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As you walk the various trails, you see that most of the equipment (pulleys, small railroad, etc.) was removed, but there remain some remnants, such as concrete footings, retaining walls, a "crusher," and some other odds and ends. However, when you come upon these remnants, unless you've read up on the site, you will likely have no idea what it used to be - what role it played in the mining operation.
Is there an app/software - perhaps an app with a computer "client" (I think that's the word) - for reconstructing what used to be there in three dimensions and so that you can see old structure as you hike? To use an example, there is a concrete slab on part of the mountain. I know from old photographs exactly what was on there. It seems like there should be a way that I can use my iPhone's location services/gyroscopes to film and photograph that slab, and then go home and build a 3D rendering of what was on it. And then I "upload" - or whatever the term would be - the 3D rendering so that when I - or anyone else who uses the same app - can hold the iPhone up at the site, the structure is in view.
To put it in a different context, it would be like walking around the Coliseum in Italy and holding up your iPhone, and some augmented reality app would fill in the missing parts for you so that you can see what it looked like originally.
Thanks for reading. Appreciate any thoughts.