PROJECT 3 | FINAL SUBMISSION
Prepared for the Apex Historical Society
PROJECT 3 ROUGH DRAFT | Version 1.2
PROJECT 3 ROUGH DRAFT | Version 1.0
OPTION ONE
PROJECT: Augmented Reality (AR) experience, transporting users through the historic timeline of Downtown Apex, NC.
LOCATION: Historic Downtown Apex, NC
CLIENT: Apex Historic Society
OVERVIEW
An augmented reality app, allowing users to see historically relevant information about the site. Overlays will include both information about the town and photo-realistic historic models of past timelines. Users can take a walk downtown in the 1800s, to see the devastation of one of Apex’s most infamous and destructive fires. Additionally, the design should allow toggling between the present and various periods of the past. The timeline may also integrates plans of future developments, to allow residents to see what Apex may look like in the days to come.
OPTION TWO
PROJECT: Historic Scavenger Hunt & Graffiti tagging AR Experience
LOCATION: Historic Downtown Apex, NC
CLIENT: Apex Historic Society
OVERVIEW
An augmented reality app, allowing users to search and discover historic buildings. The design encourages users to take the time to explore the town through a scavenger hunt and appreciate the numerous historic structures. The town has seen tremendous growth in the last couple of years and has become a hot spot of urban development. We propose an augmented reality experience that will facilitate creativity for adults and kids of all ages. A highlight of this experience is marking/tagging sites discovered (Graffiti). A scavenger hunt game combined with 3D graffiti tagging allows users to express their creativity while bringing awareness to the past.
OPTION THREE
PROJECT: Augmented Reality (AR) navigation tool for a major retail and entertainment center.
LOCATION: Irvine Spectrum, Irvine, CA
CLIENT: The Irvine Company / City of Irvine
OVERVIEW
A multi-use navigation app, helping users maneuver through the massive center. Through the app, users are able to plan a trip and then navigate to the nearest parking, as well as find the fastest route through each location. Users may navigate via an augmented reality experience – using their phone’s camera – in which the navigation is overlaid onto reality with arrows and pathways leading the way. Users may also switch to a more traditional map, in which their live route is tracked via an on-screen map. The app has potential for discovering sales, new locations, hotspots, parking, advertising, etc.
Hey Joseph & Graham!
This reminds me of the AR feature in ZipRealty’s Real Estate app!
This concept sounds awesome! Because I’m constantly reminded by PSAs in Japanese train platforms that walking while using your smartphone is dangerous, I would make sure to consider some aspects that consider safety while walking! Pokemon GO is still pretty big in Japan and lots of people have been in accidents (hit by bicycles/people, falling down stairs, etc.) playing while on their phones ^^;
Something that will be presented in the upcoming CES 2019 (Consumer Electronics Show) is the wireless earphones that make walking while on your smartphone possible. (Here are the earphones: http://www.nain.jp/a1-hearable-platform/)
It gives a way for people to be connected to their phones through audio instead of a visual screen. I still love your AR screens but perhaps it may be helpful to have warnings to make sure users are not so absorbed in the app that they are ignoring street signals.
Best,
Rona
Hey Rona,
Thank you for your feedback. I took a look at those earphones, they are very interesting. It’s a good idea to having warnings in the AR environment, but we ended up not gearing our presentation towards that. We wanted to focus on conveying the idea of an architecture that can transcend any one site. Road hazards are definitely something to be considered, and it’s briefly addressed in our final video. Thanks again for your suggestions!
– Joe
Hi Graham and Joe – have you also uploaded part 2 of your project? Thanks
Hey Saurabh,
Thanks for pointing this out! I put a link into this post for our latest version of mockups and slides.