oculus presentation

COMS 6998 project presentation -Ajay Siva Santosh()

-Dimitris Paidarakis() -Prateek Sinha(ps2791)

-Zissis Konstas()

}  Introduction }  Application flow }  API’s used }  Features }  Application Optimization }  Future Scope }  Demo

}  Users get a real time view of places around them or any other place of their interest.

}  Check out the latest pictures around you or query for places you like.

}  Check out which place is trending around you.

}  Google Places API

}  Google Geocoding API

}  Instagram API

}  The Twitter REST API (was later decided not to be used in the application)

}  Facebook authentication SDK

}  Parse Database

}  Reachability

}  Search what is happening around you!

}  Look which place is trending around you.

}  Check out what is going on, on your favorite place.

}  Check out various images around you.

}  We do not ping the API’s continuously, to get the latest data.

}  Doing so would result in memory, battery and network drainage.

}  Thus we leave it to our users to refresh the application to get the latest data.

}  Asynchronous image loading.

}  Asynchronous API calls

}  Used Apple maps instead of Google maps to achieve greater efficiency.

}  Discovering the best place to go now based on real time crowd sourced data.

}  Develop a community of like minded users who are interested in rating a place.

}  Users of the app who are currently in a venue can rate it on different interesting characteristics.

}  On demand real time venue characteristics , provided by the users present there.

}  Now we will begin the demo of our application.