Aero Project

Idea

When brainstorming ideas for my project with Adobe Aero, I imagined creating a magic portal using just my laptop screen. I’ve always loved fantastical concepts of gateways leading to other realms.

Plot

You tap on a laptop to activate a portal. Out of this vivid vortex, I wanted an animated woman to emerge, wave hello, then vanish back inside.

Issues

I created an animated woman called Amelie. She was supposed to walk from one point to another (from pyramid to pyramid in my case). On computer preview, Amelie went ahead and came back. But not in mobile app.

So I decided to use image anchor instead horizontal surface. However a lot of my tries were not successful. In the end I removed back to horizontal surface, read the instruction more careful and Amelie chose the right direction.

AR Panel Project with EyeJack app

As a group we’ve chosen local cat cafes as a subject for our project.

The choice’ve been made

The Whole Cat and Kaboodle is a new cat facility opened recently in downtown Kirkland. We’ve already been there with my daughter and like it.

Problem – No accessible information about adoption

The Whole Cat and Kaboodle provides different services: grooming, daycare, store, cafe and adoption. However it’s not clear that you can adopt a cat from that cafe. And it can be nice for everyone to check some information about those cats before the actual meeting.

I’ve decided to highlight Adoption opportunities in my panels.

Concept

An AR panel with admission prices, working hours, cute pictures/gif, and adoption info.

Panels

Solution

Reality Composer – UI/UX Review

 

Reality Composer on the App Store

Reality Composer created by Apple is a easy and powerful tool to create Augmented Reality. It was released for iOS on September 19, 2019.

Reality Composer for iOS and iPadOS makes it easy to build, test, tune, and simulate AR experiences for iPhone or iPad.

 

What they did well. User Interface

  • Simplicity and accessibility
  • It’s intuitive, with user-friendly layout
  • No coding experience

What they did well. User Experience

  • Accessible to a broad audience
  • Drag-and-Drop
  • Instant Preview
  • Templates and Starter Projects

UI/UX items can be improved

  • No desktop app (iPhone/ iPad only)
  • Implement a tutorial
  • Interactions, such as dragging and dropping objects, rotating, and resizing, are smooth and responsive
  • Update the built-in library

Credit:

I used a tutorial from here: https://medium.com/omisoft/reality-composer-tutorial-fe9986e88011