The problem XploVR solves

We know how the world is facing this pandemic due to COVID-19. Everyone is at home and meeting, so many issues like people are facing stress, depression, etc. Many people's summer vacation plans got shattered due to this pandemic. People with a low economy can never imagine for an international tour as they can't afford it under normal circumstances. In this hard time, we came up with a solution to this problem.
Our idea is to build a VR application which would make people visit international places or tourist places which they can't attend due to the COVID-19. Our app will also provide them with information about the places they want to visit, and along with that, what makes us different is the interaction between the user and our application. The user can ask questions related to the destination, and he would receive an answer to the query. Our approach would be to make a VR application from Unity 3D and later merging the app with Alexa skills.

The features of the app can be listed as follows:
• Virtually visit locations all around the world.
• App tells the user about the history of the location they visit.
• It also provides them with the necessary information about the location.
• Users can ask questions related to the location and get a response within the app (using Alexa Skills).

To download the app click here!
To view our website click here!

Challenges we ran into

Distinguishing between the hard color and the mild color was the most significant challenge laid in front of us. While developing the VR on Unity, we found the colors of the selected pictures too hard, for a regular eye to view the colors nicely, and without any difficulties, we used mild stack colors. Later we enhanced the frames accordingly. One more challenge we encountered while building the VR app was the lack of VR controllers. Since we currently didn’t have VR controllers and also, we know the fact that many people wouldn’t have VR controllers. Hence, we intended to use the Gaze pointer.
Secondly, the difficulty which was awaiting in our part was building extensive skills on Amazon Alexa based on every location. Time was a constraint in developing those skills, so we divided the task among two of our group members and asked them to build all the skills.
Last but not least, it took ample time from us to build a landing website for our project. The website contained the title of our hack and also the services it provides to the user—currently, the hosting of the site is on GitHub.