VISTA: Tour Guide AI

Explore Penn with VISTA: Your AI-Powered Campus Tour Guide

Developed By: Kaden Yeung, Tony Yang, Larry Chen, Felix Mao

VISTA (Vision Integrated Speech Tour Assistant) transforms your phone into a smart, interactive guide for the University of Pennsylvania. Whether you're a prospective student, visiting parent, or curious tourist, VISTA helps you navigate campus with powerful tools driven by artificial intelligence and real-time visuals.

Smart Tour Guidance
Use your camera to identify buildings and landmarks. VISTA will instantly recognize them and provide rich, historical, and practical insights — no tour group required.

Ask Ally, Your AI Assistant
Need directions? Want to know where the best study spots are? Just ask. Ally, your built-in AI guide, answers your questions with real-time info, facts, and suggestions tailored to your location.

Camera-Powered Exploration
Snap a photo of any building or monument and let VISTA analyze and describe it for you using cutting-edge vision-language AI.

Custom Route Planning
Tell VISTA what you’re interested in, and it will build a personalized campus route using AI-powered planning logic and real map data. Great for open houses, solo visits, or even scavenger hunts!

Stay Informed with Campus Headlines
Catch up on the latest Penn news and stories right from the home screen with real-time RSS integration.

Why VISTA?
- AI-powered object and location recognition
- Natural language Q&A with Ally
- Rich building info and historical context
- Custom tour routes with step-by-step directions
- Live campus news updates
- Private: No accounts or tracking required

Whether you're discovering Penn for the first time or rediscovering it in a new way, VISTA is the guide you didn’t know you needed.