Wishairer

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Wishairer is a companion application for the Tree of Wishes project, an experimental project jointly carried out by UEH University (formerly known as University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City), University of Science, VNU-HCM (VNUHCM-US) and Zetamotion. Wishairer is a tool for users to virtually interact with a physical art installation, which is in the form of a tree of wishes currently hosted in the campus of UEH University. Wishairer was primarily designed by UEH University and mainly developed by VNUHCM-US with the generous technical support of Zetamotion.

Using Wishairer, users can compose messages consisting of their wishes and virtually attach them on the tree of wishes. Users can also view all wishes virtually attached on the tree either by themselves or by other people. Users can interact with the tree of wishes in one of two modes: virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). In the VR mode, users will see and interact with a virtual replica of the physical tree of wishes. This mode of interaction allows users to interact with the tree anywhere and at any time. In contrast, the AR mode requires users to be collocated with the physical art installation to be able to view and interact with virtual wishes. It should be noted that the AR mode also supports users to view and interact with wishes created and attached on the tree in the VR mode thanks to the state-of-art tracking algorithm developed by Zetamotion.

Thus, do not hesitate to download Wishairer and start putting your wishes on the tree regardless of whether you are nearby the physical art installation or not. Even if you cannot be currently at UEH University campuses and need to make your wishes using the VR mode, who knows one day when you have a chance to stand in front of the physical tree, you can see the wishes you made today.

Project members:

Principal developer: Duy-Nam Ly (VNUHCM-US)

Principal graphic designer: Viet Le (UEH University)

Project lead: Dr. Duy Le (ABB Research)

Project advisors: Prof. Minh-Triet Tran ( VNUHCM-US), Dr. Tu-Anh Trinh (UEH University)

Industrial partner: Zetamotion Co., UK (Dr. Huy Phan, Dr. Anh Nguyen, Dr. Luan Duong)