Che effetto che fa!
AR application for VFX exhibition
Abstract
The theme of the 31st edition of the Castellinaria - festival del cinema Giovane in Bellinzona, Switzerland, was the relationship between the special effects and the cinema.
To show that and communicate it to the visitors, in the exhibition that simulates the circular spaceship of "2001: A Space Odyssey", there were posters of the major movies that pushed forward the special effects in the movie industry.
With the support of iPads, visitors could get immersed in the movie's posters, thanks to augmented reality, and play the backstage video of the film to learn about the groundbreaking technics used for the special effects.
Datas
year
2018
scope
freelance, AR application
team
client
event
about
process
The solution used has been to build an iOS application for iPad using Unity. The tracking system was based on Vuoforia, which allows us to load the tracker (in our case, the poster of the movies) and to detect them by using the device's camera on which the application was running.
In Unity for each tracker, various cut-out parts of the poster have been placed at different distances from the tracker itself to create the illusion of the characters on the sign popping out from the wall, giving the augmented reality effect.
The application has been built for only a few iPads for the public to visit the exhibition.
The setup of the iPads has been quite long and tedius (personally not a big iOS fan) The iPads at the desk of the exibition and C-3PO greeting the visitors at the entrance (video projection) 2001: A space odyssy Willow Star Wars
skills
- Interaction design