The Metaverse
The first augmented reality flashlight,
“The development of intelligent thinking is fundamentally a social process.”
“Approximately 20% of PT patients drop out of treatment within the first three visits, and 70% fail to complete their full course of care.”
Lumen can track its environment and is made spatially aware using ARKit on the iPhone. Learn more about it here.
Informed by user research and experience prototyping we have went through multiple iterations. See our journey here.
Lumen was awarded the Playable Museum grant by Museo Marino Marini. Learn more about that project.
Lumen is made spatially aware through V-SLAM tracking - powered by ARKit on the iPhone. This, in combination with other tracking methods such as fiducials, objects, etc allows Lumen to know where it is in the physical world and project back the corresponding content from a spatially mapped virtual world.
Lumen has been developed through a people centred design and research process. The team started off by conducting user research sessions with key stakeholders and storytellers which helped formulate the design challenge and opportunity space. Following this, several experience prototyping sessions were conducted with different participants using sacrificial prototypes. The learnings from these were then used to craft various functional prototypes.
Our technical exploration has gone through several rounds of prototyping using different technologies spanning from neural network powered object classification to V-SLAM (Visual Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) systems. Our vision being to create a mixed reality device that encourages people to explore environments freely and experience alternate realities collectively.
“It is a project that successfully merges manual creativity, technological innovation, scalability, interaction between visitors and museum space and is also interdisciplinary.”
- Museo Marino Marini