3D Messages
| This project was done as a part of the Creative Technology course assignment, 2021. You can find the Unity project by clicking the Github icon. -> |  |
Abstract
People are very social creatures. The urge to share stories and messages, and thoughts and opinions about pretty much everything. And when distance creates a barrier, people just find a way to break it - phones. We now have instant messaging, social media and lots of other platforms to share our thoughts.
Words, emojis, images, videos... we have it all. But the question is what's next?
With the use for Augmented Reality taking over and locative technologies, 3D messages could take off. A special surprise for an auspicious occasion or just another pick-me-up for a friend. Reminders in the sky, perhaps? The possibilities are endless.
Concept
Putting major buildings and landmarks, crashed spaceships and flying astronauts in random locations was all fun, but what else? The only limit is your imagination. This started out as an extension to my dissertation project, GlobAR (read more by clicking here), but the more I got into it, the more irrelevant it became.
World Scale AR trial run
While this project is still in early development, it has room to grow. The way the application would work is the user would input an address or location for the message to be "delivered". The user will also be able to select the text and/or image that will be delivered.
The receiver of the message will have to be at the specific location to see the message. It could probably have a notification/alert system that someone's received a message.
I gave it a try for Mother's Day. I put an I Love You message at my mother's workplace and asked her to check it out. Using Unity, Mapbox, and ARCore, I put a 3D object at location co-ordinates which I googled. This was a trial, so I hard coded it in. Ideally, I'd use a library or framework to handle co-ordinates from user entered addresses.
Evaluation
I Love You 3D Message
Even though the positioning and rotation was inaccurate, and the object ending up moving from the front of the office to the parking lot out back, it did prove to be a great idea for a bigger project.
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