Hands-on AR | Introductory exercise

A short exercise to start using Augmented Reality.

In order to make technology simple and focus on the content, we will be using ARTiVIVE – “An easy-to-use augmented reality tool for enhancing creative experiences”

In order to optimize the short time dedicated to this first practical introduction to Augmented Reality, I strongly suggest each participant to
– register in advance HERE (free account)
– download the ARTiVIVE app to the mobile device
– if possible, bring a digital file that will be the marker and the digital content that you would like to overlay (“augment” :))

Compatible file types .jpg and .png files for images and any video files (eg .mp4, .gif, .MOV). For 3D objects, the files compatible are glTF and GLB.

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REFERENCES

ARTiVIVE tutorials
– to set up the 1st AR work
+ The whole video playlist (see the first 5min. video)

Turorial by the Visual Arts Education master student Afonso Neves:
Part I introduces the basic features of Artivive and gives a practical demonstration of its applications. Afonso’s artwork “Vertigo” is the reference for this stage. Its characteristics facilitated the instruction of methodologists in differentiating planes and balancing the notions of depth and scale.

In Part II of the tutorial, a more complex artwork, “2.5 D_face”, challenges the skills acquired in Part I and encourages to explore new approaches to using the tool features.

Video editors
– ShotCut (free and open source)
– OpenShot (free and open source)
– DaVinci Resolve (free; + complete, also + complex)
(I will be adding more before and after the workshop…)

Video transcoder
– Handbrake (free and open source)

Image editors
– InkScape | vector (FLOSS – Free, Libre and Open Source)
– GIMP | bitmap (FLOSS)