AR Trails
What is AR?
Augmented reality is where digital objects are made to appear in the physical world usually via a mobile phone screen, or larger interactive screen.
Popular examples include Pokemon Go, which allowed Niantic to place virtual Pokemon into the real world. StoryTrails will be doing the same with archive, people, places and objects from the past, bringing them into the real world and allowing audiences to interact and experience history within their local environment in new and exciting ways.
What is an AR trail?
Guided by a mobile AR app, you’ll be led at your own pace to different story points along a route with a choice of story trails to follow. Outside the local library, or in your own home, you can enter a virtual story portal to begin your StoryTrails experience. Using a mix of stunning augmented reality experiences that remix the BFI and BBC archives, you will experience history where it actually happened, revitalising the streets upon which they stand with new voices and untold stories of the past. Inside the library you will be immersed and fly through a unique virtual map of each town which will be made up of 3D models, and audio stories captured on location.
How does it work?
Travel through a neon portal to begin your journey exploring stories that highlight who we were in the past, who we are now, and where we are heading into the future. These AR trails were built using a range of new technologies. From LiDAR 3D scanning to spatial audio, experience storytelling like never before.
AR in StoryTrails
We have three different AR experiences available:
1) A Moment Across Time
- A one-stop national experience
2) Virtual Cinema
- A one-stop experience
3) Town Specific Trails
- A longer 5-7 stop trail experience, these are:
Omagh – Return Ticket to Omagh
Dumfries – Queens of The South
Dundee – Against All Odds
Blackpool – All aboard the Queercoaster
Bradford – The Godfather of Film
Sheffield – Ethel the Green Queen OR Crafty Grace
Lincoln – An Impish Tale
Wolverhampton – Sale of the Century
Swansea – What’s The Scoop?
Newport – Meet The Freckletons
Bristol – The Secret Behind Sweetmart
Swindon – Snapping Swindon with the Hoopers
Slough – From Slough to Space
Lambeth – Winnie’s Honky Tonk Walk
Lewisham – New Cat In Town
All trails can be done on location or remotely at home!
"StoryTrails will help to shape the future of the creative industries and pioneer creative storytelling in the 3D internet."
Professor David Olusoga,
Broadcaster and Film-maker and Executive Producer of StoryTrails
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