First Descent worked closely with Dr. James S. Cotton and Ryan Rogers to bring the project to life. An augmented reality landmass, complete with community buildings, shows the energy harvest system cut-away to clearly illustrate the process. The AR solution was designed to allow the user to drop a visual of a landmass through a tablet app. Once the landmass is sized and scaled in the space, the user can anchor it and provide a 360-degree view of the entire process. The process information has been compartmentalized into chapters, and within each chapter is an animation of how that specific aspect functions in relation to the system as a whole. Users will see the energy being sent to the facilities and pulled back out into the system and stored until it is required.
Most importantly, the ICE-Harvest project promotes a vision of more sustainable communities that are able to produce, utilize and manage their own energy systems – a vision that is compatible with the goal of creating a resilient and a low carbon society of the future.