Bringing Mountain Routes to Life Through Augmented Reality
A cross-platform mobile experience that overlays climbing route information onto the physical mountain, helping climbers discover, understand and plan their ascent.
Product Design · Mobile Engineering · AR · Backend · Data
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THE CHALLENGE
Making the Mountain Easier to Understand
For climbers, choosing a route is about more than simply knowing where the summit is. Understanding the available routes, their difficulty, location and characteristics can be critical when planning an ascent.
Information Without Context
Route information traditionally exists in maps, guidebooks and separate resources rather than directly within the climber's view of the mountain.Shows, series, training videos, yoga practices and courses needed to come together within one connected experience.
Choosing the Right Route
Climbers need to understand available routes and difficulty levels before deciding which path best suits their experience and objectives.The platform needed to deliver a consistent and intuitive experience across iOS, Android and web.
Understanding the Terrain
Route names, locations, crags and other information can be difficult to translate from a two-dimensional map into the physical mountain environment.As the content library grew, users needed better ways to discover and find the content most relevant to them.
Creating a New Kind of Climbing Experience
The goal wasn't simply to digitize a guidebook. It was to create a more interactive and intuitive way to explore mountain routes.Ayurprana wanted to create a stronger relationship with its audience through community, participation and personalized experiences.
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Our Process
Making the Mountain Easier to Understand
For climbers, choosing a route is about more than simply knowing where the summit is. Understanding the available routes, their difficulty, location and characteristics can be critical when planning an ascent.
Understand
Understand how climbers discover, evaluate and navigate routes.
Map
Structure route and crag information so it could be connected to the physical environment.
Visualize
Use augmented reality to place digital route information within the user's view of the mountain.
Experience
Bring route discovery, difficulty information and details into one intuitive mobile experience.
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The Solution
Digital Route Intelligence. In the Real World.
Ariumsoft developed RedPoint, a cross-platform mobile application designed specifically for mountain climbing experiences in Australia.The defining experience was augmented reality.When a climber points their phone toward a mountain, RedPoint can overlay digital route information onto the physical environment.
Augmented Reality Routes
Digital route information is positioned over the user's view of the mountain, creating an interactive connection between the physical landscape and digital information.
Mountain & Route Data
Users can explore route information across multiple mountains in Australia.
Crag Information
Detailed information about climbing areas and crags helps users understand the environment before choosing a route.
Difficulty Levels
Route difficulty information allows climbers to evaluate options based on their experience and preferences.
Route Details
Users can access additional information about individual routes without having to switch between multiple sources.
Social Login
A streamlined account experience makes it easier for users to access the platform and participate in the climbing ecosystem.
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The Experience
From Looking at a Map to Looking at the Mountain
The RedPoint experience was designed around the environment itself.
Discover
Explore mountains and available climbing areas.
Identify
Point the device toward the mountain and discover routes through AR.
Evaluate
Understand route names, difficulty and relevant information.
Plan
Use the available information to make more informed decisions before starting the climb.
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Technologies We Work With
Engineering an Augmented Reality Experience
Building RedPoint required more than conventional mobile application development. Ariumsoft combined cross-platform engineering with augmented reality and location-aware data to create an experience where digital information could interact with the physical environment.
React
Next.js
Node.js
Python
Django
AWS
PostgreSQL
... and more
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THE IMPACT
A New Way to Experience the Mountain
RedPoint transformed static route information into an interactive experience connected directly to the physical environment.
Interactive Route Discovery
Climbers could explore routes through an augmented view of the mountain rather than relying solely on traditional maps and guidebooks.
Better Route Awareness
Route names, difficulty and other information could be understood in the context of the actual mountain
More Informed Planning
Having route information accessible through the application helped climbers evaluate options before beginning their ascent.
Connected Climbing Experience
Social capabilities created opportunities for climbers to connect and share experiences around the platform.
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What Made It Different
The Mountain Became the Interface.
Traditional applications ask users to navigate a digital map.RedPoint flipped that experience.
The old way
"Where is this route on the map?"
A question that forces the climber to translate between a static map and the real landscape.
The new way
"There is the route."
A moment of clarity where the device simply points to the mountain and the route appears.
That is the core innovation behind RedPoint.
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Ariumsoft's Role
More Than a Development Partner
From product design to platform engineering, Ariumsoft worked closely with Ayurprana to design, build and continuously evolve the digital experience.
Product Discovery
Understanding the climbing experience and translating the concept into a digital product.
UX / UI Design
Designing an intuitive mobile experience around route discovery and exploration.
Mobile Engineering
Developing the cross-platform iOS and Android application.
AR Engineering
Creating the augmented reality experience that connects route information to the physical environment.
Backend & Data
Building the infrastructure required to manage users, mountains, crags and route information.
Product Delivery
Bringing the different components together into a cohesive end-to-end experience.
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The Outcome
From Route Data to Real-World Experience
RedPoint demonstrated how emerging technology can fundamentally change how people interact with information.
What traditionally existed as maps, guidebooks and route descriptions became an interactive digital experience connected directly to the mountain.
For Ariumsoft, the project was an opportunity to combine mobile engineering, augmented reality, spatial information and product design to solve a very real-world problem.
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