TimeGazer

A photo booth for time traveling
send greetings from the poster
virtually enter the historical postcard

Mockup of the process.

Based on the wonderful “Postcards from Valais (1890 - 1950)” dataset, consisting of nearly 4000 historic postcards of Valais, we create a prototype for Mixed-Reality photo booth. One can choose a historic postcard as a background and a person will be style-transferred virtually onto the postcard.

Potentially with VR-trackerified things to add choosable objects virtually into the scene. Optionally with connection to swiss postal postcard creator API (or at least send it per mail).

This project is roughly based on a project] from last year, which resulted in an active research project at Databases and Information Systems] group of the University of Basel]: VIRTUE]. Hence, we use a similar setup:

• HTC Vive Pro] VR-Headset
• Unity]

Standard box on MakerCase:

Modified for the input of paper and output of postcard:

Here we document our progress over the weekend:

After forming the group, we split up according to our roles and assigned the first tasks. (Here we'll add some images) We set-up our project plan and worked on their

Quote from the data introduction page:

A collection of 3900 postcards from Valais. Some highlights are churches, cable cars, landscapes and traditional costumes.
Source: Musées cantonaux du Valais – Musée d’histoire

• https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/postcards-from-valais-1890-1950

• Dr. Ivan Giangreco
• Dr. Johann Roduit
• Lionel Walter
• Loris Sauter
• Luca Palli
• Ralph Gasser