Augmented Reality based IT Service for Film-related Travel Industry

Nowadays, tourism based on film locations is becoming more and more prosperous. Therefore, famous film locations are turning into theme parks and related travel packages are appearing. However, such theme parks can be constructed only if the film location is really famous. However, normally many film locations are unknown to general people. In this paper, we propose a mobile IT service which supports film location based travel. When a man takes a screenshot of the location this will be sent to the cloud server together with the location information obtained by the GPS. The cloud server compensates the accurate position of the user and sends a query to the database which returns a film clip to the mobile phone matching the position of the user. Then the movie clip that was taken in that place will be diplayed on the display of the user's smartphone, or a picture of the movie scene is overlapped on the picture which user takes on this region. By using this service general people can easily take a film location thema travel.