TOURISM AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATION (TARA)

Industrial 4.0, the revolution of technology is coming influencing all aspect of human
life. Augmented reality technology is one of the pillars of industrial 4.0 can give revolution
into the world by giving the visual view into the real environment in real time. With this main
feature of augmented reality technology will be a great help for human doing especially in
planning where they can have better view of outcome of the project before it happen. For
example, the constructions of tourist attraction like waterpark with be better with the help of
augmented reality technology. Usually, the presentation of the construction project will be in
documentation like the expected result image of the project. But with augmented reality, the
output of project will be clearer about the specification and architecture structure of the
building. By doing this, the inventor and stakeholder of the project will be confident to work
on the project due to clear vision of the expected result of the project. This is the reason why
this technology needs to fully utilize in all sectors in industry including tourism sector. This
technology can help the tourist by gaining new experience in gaining information either when
they are travelling or not. In other word is in attractive and interactive ways. By using the
mobile based application where the uses continuously grow in all countries, this tourism
augmented reality application can help the users to gain information of the tourism place by
the mediums of 3 dimensional objects, videos, images, audios and more just by scanning the
target images that be set using Android smartphone camera. This technology not just help the
tourist to gain knowledges in attractive ways, it also can be one of the ways to promote the
country’s tourist attraction places locally and globally at the same time support the
development of our country.