AR Progressive Dieting App: 4K+ Downloads

Partnering with HQSoftware, the customer developed an application that relies on Augmented Reality to assist its users in maintaining healthy dieting. The solution helps to control the daily amount of the food consumed and tracks monthly progress. With the designed system, the customer was able to get funding for future project development.

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Customer

Based in the USA, the customer is a bunch of medical professionals seeking funding for their project that aims at helping people to establish healthy eating habits and lose weight in an efficient, yet simple manner.

Solution

The idea behind the application rests upon the rule of “three fists,” which implies that the size of the person’s fist equals to that of their stomach. This way, one may compare their fist to the size of the meal, and it will be a sufficient amount of food to be sated, but not overeat.

The delivered application enables users to calculate the size of their fists. For this purpose, a user is asked to submit their foot size — which correlates with the size of a fis t— on registration, so that a special algorithm will estimate the right proportions of the fist.

Employing the power of Augmented Reality, the developed system uses a camera to identify the meal and render a customized fist over it. A user is able to submit thier daily progress by setting up the size of a portion from 0,5 to 3 fists. The solution also takes into account the type of food: appetizers, main courses, desserts, etc.

Then, a user can track their progress via different diagrams that provide the statistics of interest. One may also add a description to each meal taken, as well as rate food on a five-star scale.

Challenges

In the course of the project, the team at HQSoftware had to address the following issues:

• The solution needed to easily recognize the surface on which the food is served.
• The application needed to seamlessly render a semi-transparent fist over the meal portion.

It’s planned to implement Machine Learning to improve food type recognition and deliver smart recommendations.

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