AR Experience Utopia/Dystopia

To create an impactful immersive story, we combined a variety of digital and interactive elements. The audio-narrated story of local discovery ends with a choice users have to make. They are prompted with the decision to enter one of two scenarios – a utopia or a dystopia. Whereas until this point, the theme of the AR experience is a scavenger hunt that leverages geospatial transforms of the Geospatial API, the second part is less guided and focuses on advanced location-based features like building geometry and occlusion. These features allow us to alter the physical reality and risk an outlook on how the future might look like. In addition to placing and attaching interactive 3D scenes on the geometry around the user, we’ve been adding post-processing effects, custom shaders, and spatial audio to amplify immersion when it’s most important in the AR story – increasing the emotional involvement when users are faced with the decision how we want to live in the years ahead.

The winning experience was part of a Hackathon. More info here: https://devpost.com/software/berlin-s-potsdamer-platz-between-utopia-and-dystopia