AR video on mobile device Projects

Screen shot of a 360 video bubble. There is a prominent tree and the photographers head visible against the blue background from the sky.

STEPS (Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Space)

Presented Summer 2020 Rowntree Mills Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - AR video on mobile device
 - Photographs
Technologies:
 - Android Mobile
 - iOS Mobile
 - Maptool
 - Web App
 - YouTube
Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Geolocated XR content
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Locative media map of 360 video/audio content sourced from community engagement.

A technician wears a VR headset with reflective lenses while looking at a mobile device. The reflection of the device is visible on the visor forming a video loop.

Theatre Passe Muraille with Toasterlab and Cohort

Presented Sep 2020 Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Technologies:
 - Cohort Bridge
 - iOS Mobile
 - Qlab
Audience Experience:
Development Stage:
 - Workshop

Summary of Project:

This workshop explored ways to improve access to ASL interpretation & translation during live performances through the use of digital technologies …

Screen shot from using Maptool

Andrew Sempere, The Place Lab Ltd.

Presented

Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Geolocated XR content
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

An MIT-licensed computational tool for generating locative media projects, Maptool can be used as the basis for locative storytelling.

Dancers in colourful street clothes perform on a public sidewalk near a street car stop in Kansas City.

Presented Jun 10 - Sep 10, 2019 Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA as part of the Art in the Loop

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - AR video on mobile device
Technologies:
 - Android Mobile
 - iOS Mobile
 - Maptool
 - Web App
 - YouTube
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Choreographer Jane Gotch created a site-specific virtual reality dance at three Kansas City Streetcar stops and a single culminating live performance.

Ian Garrett smiles in front of the display of equipment and information for the VR workshop at Albion Library

Kitchenband

Presented Sep 9 - Dec 13, 2019 Albion Public Library, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada

Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Geolocated XR content
 - Mobile app
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance
 - Workshop

Summary of Project:

Community members and users in the library script scenes and curate ideas to create 10 hauntings that share the story of the community in VR.

Screen shot of participants in a Zoom meeting session, some with tMoRPH branded backgrounds, some with video disabled.

Toasterlab

Presented Jun 13-19, 2020 online at FoLDA 2020

Technologies:
 - Discord
 - email
 - Google Drive
 - Mozilla Hubs
 - Unity (game engine)
 - VR headset
 - Vuphoria
 - YouTube
 - Zoom
Audience Experience:
 - Online Hackathon
 - Virtual Conference
Development Stage:
 - Conference Presentation
 - Invited Audience

Summary of Project:

Gathering of invited participants to explore solutions to developing technology based art for consumption in low-bandwidth environments.

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