Using Unity MARS and Flutter to Author Cross-Platform AR ExpEriences
I previously experimented with combining the Unity game engine and Flutter (Google’s UI toolkit for natively compiled cross-platform apps) back in late 2019, early 2020; with mixed outcomes. At the time, I was working on an AR prototype using Vuforia, a framework for which a Flutter plugin wasn’t (and still isn’t) available. In any case…
Using NFC Tags with Flutter
I recently developed functionality to allow an app’s users to sign in using a business card. The business card has an embedded batteryless, short-range communication device known as a Near Field Communication (NFC) tag. The user simply positions the business card close to their mobile device (usually top rear) and data is transferred from the…
Review and Retrospective
Over the past six months I have been working with Flutter and Firebase to develop a framework for a cloud connected interactive smartphone expérience. The app delivers virtual objects into the user’s real-world space with AR. The user searches and collects virtual objects over time. Each find unveils new interactivity, for example an object may…
Narrativity in Mobile Computing Augmented Reality
My research interests have led me to want to understand more about the processes and determining factors behind the concept of ludological narrative and examine whether it could be worthwhile carrying out primary research to examine how mobile computing combined with augmented reality has already, or will through future innovation, enhance the existing narrative mode…
Character Study: Femme Fatale
Researching the history and significance of the femme fatale in classic and revivalist film noir has provided rich insight to the complex nature of a characterisation that might otherwise be easily taken for granted. The common themes of beauty, sexuality and danger which emanate from the popular notion of the femme fatale only betray the…
Noirscape Swipe Card Development
Noirscape uses NFC (Near Field Communications) technology to add some fun to the signing in process. A detective ID card is among the items that will be included in the boxed version of the game but they’ll also be available via the future website and onlin merchandise store.
NFC is a tiny, low-cost, batteryless radio…
Noirspeak
The classic film noir era played out under the Hollywood Production Code, a strict set of guidelines that governed movie content throughout the nineteen thirties and forties. The Production Code meant specific restrictions on behaviour and language: no sex, no nudity, no blasphemy, no swearing… all of this meant that film makers had to get…
AR Gamification : snaps
Finding hidden objects in an augmented reality [AR] experience is fun; especially when the items have interactive qualities which trigger new content, clues and narrrative. Furthermore, given the quality of 3D assets, AR lighting, shadow and reflection prediction and generation; coupled with a the Noirscape black & white filter, it’s a great little feature to…
AR : Fiction or Virtual?
Augmented Reality (AR) provides a way to place realistic looking virtual objects into a realworld scene. While the object may merely exist upon the screen of a phone; there are features to AR which combine the worlds; fiction and reality; beyond the two dimensional surface of a smartphone. For example, when a 3D object is…
360 Flashback Interaction
This is a demo of an interactive scene using 360 photography, 3D character design and animation pulled together in Adobe After Effects to produce a WEBP image file which then has interaction through sound and buttons using the Flutter mobileapplication development framework.
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