Google and Singapore Tourism Board partner to create AR guided tours powered by AI
Visitors to Singapore who use the app can experience an AR-enhanced tour with Merli, the STB mascot.
The AR experience you get in the app. Image source: Google.
During Google I/O 2023, Google’s ARCore and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) announced the launch of a preview of two new AR experiences that take people around Merlion Park and Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall via its “Visit Singapore” app.
Powered by Google's ARCore Geospatial API, visitors will be able to embark on a fully AR-guided tour by the end of the year on their “Visit Singapore” app.
This builds on the Immersive Stream for XR that was launched last year and used by the STB to enable “the cinematic discovery of Singapore”.
Image source: Google.
With this new AR guided tour in its Visit Singapore app, visitors can follow Merli, Singapore's tourism mascot on an immersive tour of Singapore's landmarks. Using both Unity and the ARCore Streetscape Geometry API, each stop features an AR experience like at the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall where visitors can witness a larger-than-life string quartet performing on top of the national monument with Google's Visual Positioning System powering the precise AR effects, for example.
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