Rapid prototyping: toys to life
Project: Project gaia
CLIENT: starbucks
Role: DevelopeR/Designer
Platforms: Oculus (VR), iOS (AR)
TECHNOLOGIES: Unity, IOS
CLIENT: starbucks
Role: DevelopeR/Designer
Platforms: Oculus (VR), iOS (AR)
TECHNOLOGIES: Unity, IOS
Project GAIA is a cross-platform digital twin prototype, meant to explore the various ways in which Starbucks corporate and IoT data could be layered onto various locations - from the global scale down to the local store scale.
Developed by Starbucks' Emerging Technologies team, Project GAIA began life as an AR app developed for Microsoft Hololens. Additional versions were created including Mobile AR (iOS), VR (Oculus Quest) and Desktop (Mac/PC)
GAIA is a multiuser application (using the Photon multiuser engine for data and voice) For VR on Quest, we also utilized Meta Avatars for increased immersion.
The app was built using Unity. Map data was provided by BingMaps. 3D scans of stores were created using Matterport.
