Mobile-Based Weather Forecasting and Visualization Using Augmented Reality

Abstract

The aim is to design a 3D augmented reality (AR) weather visualization to investigate future tragedy and daily forecasting. Imagine a world where all physical objects could be made, destroyed, customized, and used in endless ways. Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) can create such a place. The background for the study is thus: to analyze, learn implementing and building of an AR Weather application using the OpenWeatherMap Weather API. OpenWeatherMap provides access to local and global weather data via application programming interface (API). OpenWeatherMap serves millions of customers around the world by providing a wide selection of weather-related goods with varying degrees of detail and precision. The research question is if smartphone- and tablet-based 3D AR weather visualizations can be effective tools to enhance current weather forecasting techniques. The methods used in this chapter were making use of AR weather App using unity, AR Foundation, and OpenWeatherMap to stimulate the visualization.