A work-in-progress where we’re looking beyond the range of current rooms and VR/AR guardians to help someone get to safety in a building fire.

Using the iOS app Polycam, we LIDAR scanned our office and created a digital floor plan. We then imported that into Blender, cleaned up the model and added objects we’d scanned or downloaded to created a simple digital twin. It’s interesting to walk around in the model at a life-size scale overlaid on the real office.

We want to explore might be useful to know before you leave the house. We keep the UI small to be generally unobtrusive, with just a summary of information, until you’re close to the door where the full detail is revealed. What information do you want to know before you go?

This is a simple demo where we attach a basket ball hoop to a physical wall in our office and throw balls through it. We also show how the digital objects can have physics applied to them with the balls and tables falling over onto the real office floor and bouncing off the walls.

Contextual computing has the potential to make succinct and informative Everyday AR experiences in a just-in-time way based on time of day, location, current, light, sound, and a myriad of other factors.

There are different ways that we could potentially interact with text in the physical world that we could select and use in a digital way. In this example we look at a couple of different selection methods for selecting a phone number and making a call.

We wanted to explore how widgets might be best presented on a potential Apple headset showing a virtual screen using Stage Manager. It was a simple prototype using Magic Leap 2, but elicited lots of interesting feedback during usability testing.

There is a significant opportunity for people’s experiences to be enhanced through AR-enabled accessibility. Here we extrapolate current technologies like door detection, reading signage and identifying people.

Converting real world information into that which is more meaningful, or useful, to us is going to be a very powerful experience. Here we look a simple currency conversion scenario that could a small everyday contextual enhancement while travelling.

The ultimate connection between digital and the physical world is controlling devices through a dynamic user interface. This prototype shows our ability to control a light and play music using an AR interface. We’ve connected them via Apple’s HomeKit and a PushCut server.