Next AR is a project exploring NEW social interactions based on AR technology
“We are building a social AR experience for the future!”
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Social Interactions
AR Experience
Multi-Player Game
Next-AR is a Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center Silicon Valley (CMU ETC-SV) student project that is creating a multi-player social augmented reality(AR) experience for players who are not necessarily in the same physical space.
Since AR technology has been widely used in many fields mostly as a single-player experience in recent years, our team decided to explore more especially in whether the technology can be used to establish social connections and enhance relationships between players. We use various gesture interactions combining with shared virtual space forms to achieve an intuitive and innovative social AR experience.
Learn more through our Final presentation
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Week 1
Getting to know us
Kick-off meeting with Carl and Melanie
First faculty meeting, we make our goal clear: Create a multi-player AR experience for two players who are not necessarily in the same physical space. We are suggested to brainstorm more and do tons of prototypes. After that, we can decide on the most fun and engaging one then dive into it!
We tried several existing projects and started brainstorming
Talked about the topic ”Why AR” again – Ideation: use physical furniture or props to let players feel that other players in the AR world can interact with their physical worlds.
3 directions of our experience: 1) Small games pack 2) Survival experience 3) Several isolated demos like Pupil
Technical demo 1: two players in the AR world can clap and high five together.
Technical demo 2: two players in the AR world can pick up objects and throw or give to each other.
Voice chat feature on the network is partially working right now. The server can now talk to the client.