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About PhotoCity For iPhone and iPod Touch |
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PhotoCity -- The game where you use your iPhone camera to take photos, capture flags, and build a 3D model of your school! Please also check out the website: http://photocity.cs.washington.edu
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About the Game:
In PhotoCity, you are competing against fellow classmates AND other schools to earn points and capture flags for your team. To do so, you must take photos of specific buildings around your campus, which will combine with other players' photos to turn your 2D images into a rich 3D reconstruction. When you submit a photo, it generates new 3D points, a piece of a wall on your school library, for example, and YOU get credit for those points. There are virtual flags placed around the world, and when you and your teammates create enough points around a flag, you captured it!
As the game progresses, a richer and bigger 3D model of your campus GROWS out of a few starting models until your entire campus is reconstructed in 3D!
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How the App Works:
When you use this application, you will see a map of your school covered in flags. You will be able to explore those flags and single out the uncaptured ones. When you click on a flag, it will show you what the virtual models look like and show photos that other people have contributed to that flag. Assuming you are walking around campus near the flagged buildings, you will be able to take photos, submit them directly to the game, and get back a prompt response about how many new points you achieved. Chat capabilities are also built into the app for you to use to communicate with your teammates, taunt the opposing teams, or discuss general strategies for taking the most effective photos.
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Currently Supported Zones:
PhotoCity is currently available on the campuses of:
- University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
- Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
We plan to add more schools and cities as the game matures.
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Notes:
Photocity is a product of collaboration between the University of Washington Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Cornell Department of Computer Science.
The game uses our state-of-the-art 3D reconstruction algorithms to build 3d models. Our ultimate goal is to reconstruct the entire world, one photo at a time. This project has been made possible by a generous grant from Intel Corporation.
Website: http://photocity.cs.washington.edu
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