Workshop: Augmented Reality Geospatial Info with Future Arts & Seattle XR (Seattle Art + Culture Week Special)
Have a lunch snack and meet the creators of FUTURE ARTS WAY: OTHER EARTH, Seattle's largest AR walking path up right now and learn about the latest trends for Augmented Reality filters with a focus on Geospatial Urban Design.
We welcome Seattle XR and Fairworlds to open the event with an overview of their Augmented Reality projects!
Todd will explore the creation of Space-Time Adventure Tours (STAT) by the Fair Worlds team using Unity and Niantic Spatial. STAT is an immersive phone-based AR walking comedy experience at Seattle Center that explores the 1962 World’s Fair. He’ll share the creative and technical process behind combining historical storytelling, interactive gameplay, augmented reality, and spatial audio, with a particular focus on designing accessibility from the start."
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Whether you're a seasoned developer or a creative enthusiast, you'll walk away with the practical skills to visualize, build, and launch AR projects seamlessly mapped to the real world. Join us to reshape how we experience our cities!
End Result: You'll build and create an AR filter and walk away with a working project. Future Arts will provide a file for you to open on your computer.
REQUIREMENTS: PLEASE BRING A LAPTOP AND A MOBILE DEVICE (We will have extra phones and tables available on site)
About your hosts:
Future Arts: A non-profit developing interdisciplinary residency programs and accessible public art initiatives for underserved, tech-driven artists. Their flagship project, Future Arts Way, is a 2.5-mile public AR trail featuring community-rooted digital installations that educate, inspire, and reconnect visitors to local histories, businesses, and reimagined futures mapped directly onto the land.
Kintsugi: An emergent media marketing agency Founded by Jose Gabriel Contreras, Technical Director of Future Arts Way. Kintsugi drops audiences directly into powerful stories through cutting-edge AR, VR, interactive web experiences, and projection mapping.
http://kintsugidigital.io/
Todd Little is a Senior Software Developer at Fair Worlds. He’s got a Masters & User-Centered Design Certificate in Human-Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. He’s been at Fair Worlds from the beginning - moving from UX prototyping to software engineering. He is the lead developer on Space-Time Adventure Tours.
https://www.fairworlds.com/
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Special thanks for our Location Host, Labour Temple:
Seattle’s historic gathering place, Labour Temple has been reimagined for today’s modern professional. Originally opened in 1942 as Labor Temple, at the heart of what once was known as the Denny Regrade, local unions made 2800 1st Avenue their home after their prior location at 6th Avenue and University Street was closed.
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Free/reduced access supported by 4Culture