PIVOT you re here through the centuries

Only a few dozens of years of human life and the planet we live from birth what has had billions of years. So if we can in the limited time to explore as much as found in the past, once again, might be able to "extend our lives." Victorias Secret iPhone 5 Case

Asma Jaber's team developed an app called PIVOT. Users hold the phone in the process of traveling, walking, when the "PIVOT point" appears when the phone notification to users--that is to say users to go to one place to restore the sites of local historical scenes. Then PIVOT using augmented reality technology, allows the user to see through the camera lens on the screen the last scene.

Although there have been enough app to let us "remember history", PIVOT, however the difference is that, its emphasis is "restore" and the user corresponds to the instant position, there is a "history of mourning" the immersive feeling.

Jaber I do this app is designed to honour the father died three years ago. His father is a Palestinian refugee, and she is initially hoped that follow in his father's footsteps, historical photos of the restored once, to let more people understand in our everyday life on land, the story of what happened. Victorias Secret iPhone 5 Case

Jaber said, "once in the Holocaust, more than 400 Palestinian villages destroyed by the war. While the development app in the first place because the Palestinian residents. But I hope that using crowdsourcing to make historical resources more in the PIVOT, allowing people from around the world to use it. "

Worth mentioning is that the PIVOT of the "Shoebox Archiving/Atlas archive" concept won $ 25000 prize at Harvard Innovation Lab approach. By "photo chip" way, PIVOT functionality and resources will also be gradually increased. Team are now raised on Kickstarter, and Shoebox Archiving to improve augmented reality functionality.

PIVOT is now for trial in the West Bank and Harvard, team hopes to get trained in war-plagued nation and regions involved in the project, such as Iraq and Syria. In addition, some famous tourist city in the future, such as Rome and Paris will also join the project.

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