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CityLab AR
MobileAR for The DoSeum, Texas using iOS and Android
Overview
We created a MobileAR application for The DoSeum - San Antonio’s premiere children's museum - that lets visitors bring a part of the experience home with them. The DoSeum: CityLab allows users to explore how to build a city around values, encouraging young minds to explore the joys of learning through STEM, the arts, and literacy.
Experience
In the app users choose cards from different value categories (i.e. nature, arts & culture, education, health), represented on each card by a symbol, such as a bus, a bicycle, or a house, which further represent values within that category (e.g. art museum, science center, hospital, school, university).
This format enables kids to create futuristic cities through these Augmented Reality cards, utilising the value elements in different ways. As value cards are placed on the “board,” the user’s city-in-progress springs to life. Viewed through a smartphone or tablet, animation and sound appear, as well as moving humans or objects, corresponding to the placement of each value.
It’s only possible to create a city’s healthy and well-balanced infrastructure by using one of each value category, the time limit for which is a minute-and-a-half.
When time is up, the city is submerged in a catastrophic flood, and only a city with all the values represented can survive.
“What could San Antonio be in 300 years? That’s where it all began. We’re not saying the future is going to look like this. We’re really giving children the opportunity to imagine the future—imagine the desired.”
— Meredith Doby
Vice President of Exhibits
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Services
📝 Concept & Design
We’re soup to nuts! INDE’s full-service project engineering capabilities start here: our creative development team turns ideation into working concept design. Equipped with a wide range of global experience after a decade in the marketplace, our foresight to integrate real-world limitations at conceptualisation sets us apart.
💻 Content & VFX
As one of the few AR developers that creates its own content, we pride ourselves on providing full 2D and 3D models and animation in real time or pre-rendered formats, built right alongside the AR software for speedier and higher-quality integration.
🎬 Global Content Production
Not satisfied with simply designing and developing three-dimensional content for all of our AR platforms, INDE is also capable of organising live production shoots -- in AR-ready green screen or volumetric capture -- for original content with talent.
⚙️ Hardware Design
Hardware buildouts and product lines such as BroadcastAR and HeroMirror are designed and built by us in-house, right here at INDE. Offering the unique opportunity to create and adapt hardware for new potential applications for any project across the globe.
🌎 Global Installation and Support
For over a decade, INDE has assured its installation capability anywhere in the world, and in so doing, has become the trusted name in event-based and permanent AR production globally, with deployments to almost 50 countries. All of our products and systems come provided with dedicated support, on-site and remote, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.