This week for Magic Windows and Mixed Up Realities, I am thinking about how I’d like to augment my surrounding space.
Just thinking off the bat, I would love to be able to draw things from memory and then use AR to make them come alive. In these times, I find myself reminiscing about people that I have hung out with in the past, or how things used to be. I think it would be meaningful to me if I were to try to recreate little snippets of memories that I would like to surround my environment with.
That in itself is a pretty ambiguous statement, so here is a sample drawing of what it would be like. The environment would be my backyard, and the drawing represents a memory that I have of my friend coming over and playing with my dog. (The doodle does not represent the level of finesse, but I think it would be neat to have a hand-drawn element to the experience.)
As part of the pre-class work, I was reading a post on Vuforia on ‘Best Practices for Designing and Developing Image-Based Targets’. In a nutshell, it seems that the attributes of an ideal image target is to be rich in detail, good contrast, no repeating patterns, and to be in a suitable file format.
I wonder where the AR journey will go!