Republic of the Philippines

Laguna State Polytechnic University

Province of Laguna

COLLEGE OF COMPUTER STUDIES

Age of Sta. Cruz-

Augmented

Reality

Elijido, Daniel B.
Malang, Dane Robert J.
Ramos, Jasper N.
 CHAPTER I

THE PROJECT AND ITS BACKGROUND

Augmented reality is a technology that works on computer vision-based

recognition algorithms to augment sound, video, graphics and other sensor-

based inputs on real world objects using the camera of your device. It is a

good way to render real world information and present it in an interactive way

so that virtual elements become part of the real world.

Current developments show that in the area of implementation of

augmented reality applications gives countless opportunities for development

are available. The fact that objects and additional information in augmented

reality applications are accessible in an illustrative manner. Because of these

possibilities ideas on promoting and advertisements on tourism industry rises.

The city of Sta. Cruz Laguna has plenty of historical places and even

establishments that is very well known by the residents of the city and the

tourists but they don’t know what does it looks like before and what is its

historical background.

The use of augmented reality will give the user an experience of

historical information in the form text and 3D models that as might as well give

them entertainment. From the new establishments, roads, places back to its

old forms and appearances.

Project Context
Sta. Cruz is a 1st class urban municipality in the province of Laguna,

Philippines. It is also the capital town of the province of Laguna. The

researchers wants to promote tourism of Sta. Cruz in terms of its historical

information using augmented reality. The general problem of the study is how
to create an application that will promote tourism. Specifically, the researchers

would want to answer (1) How to create an application that will give historical

background of Sta. Cruz’ places. (2) How to create an application that can

entertain tourists of Sta. Cruz. (3) And how to develop an application that will

create a new way to attract more tourist in Sta. Cruz.

Purpose and Description

The purpose of this study is to provide an application that can be used by

the tourists and also the residents on touring the city of Sta. Cruz. The

application will give a brief historical background of a specific

establishment/place and give its previous appearance. The application will not

need internet connection for the detection of the picked establishment/place

hence the camera of the smartphone or the device will be used for detection.

There will be two features for viewing the historical pictures of the

places/spots, first live is the live mode and the other is the offline mode. In the

live mode feature, the user will able to view the its historical appearance by

going to the location of the place and detect it there while the offline mode

gives the user a chance to preview the place without going on the site.

Objectives of the Study

The general objective is to develop a system to promote tourism of Sta.

Cruz in terms of its historical information using augmented reality. (1) to

create an application that will give historical background of Sta. Cruz’ places.

(2) to create an application that can entertain tourists of Sta. Cruz. (3) And

how to develop an application that will create a new way to attract more tourist

in Sta. Cruz.
 Conceptual Framework

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

Problem
Identification Planning Age of Sta. Cruz-
Analysis Augmented Reality
*Limited Places Design
*Mapping Develop
Testing
System Implementation
Requirements
Maintenance

*User Requirements

Software
Requirements

*Unity
*C#

Fig.1 Conceptual Framework of the Study

Significance of the Study

Significance of the study shows the persons that will benefit from the

application “Age of Sta. Cruz – Augmented Reality” by the

developers/proponents. And about how they will benefit from the study of the

proponents.

 Municipality of Sta. Cruz– will attract more tourist and may also open

new opportunities of investments. The history of specific

establishments/places will be promoted and will make known.

 Residents & tourists of Sta. Cruz- will have better knowledge of what

Sta. Cruz has been in the past years and what does it looks like.
  Researchers – the researchers will gain more knowledge and

experience about this study or to any thing that can be related to this

study.

 Future Researchers – they will gain a first-hand knowledge about this

kind of study

Scope and Limitations

The proposed application “Age of Sta. Cruz- Augmented Reality” is

made for the municipality of Sta. Cruz only. This section explains about the

scope and limitation of the project fully understand the possible opportunities

and restrictions of the study.

The following will be the scope of the study:

 The application provides a historical background of specific sites

 The application provides a visual representation of previous

appearance of establishments/places

 The application provides a map of available places to be visited.

These are the limitations of this study:

 The application cannot provide historical backgrounds and visual

representations of other municipalities.

 The application does not provide a navigation on the mapping feature.