Presentation on designing and building an AR app.

1. Design for AR &
Build an AR app
Kumar Ahir - Jul 18

2. About myself
@kernel_kumar
kumar.ahir@gmail.com
Interaction Design, IDC
MahaWar - strategy board game
OoBI alpha - first multitouch
CISCO, Microsoft, Symantec
OoBI - Out of Box Interactions -
oobi.in
Exit to PropTiger
6 month startup
Now…

4. Interior
Designer

5. Questions
AR for disabled
AR/VR without devices
AR for wearables
Handy AR hardware for explorations
Building AR mockup

6. Content
Difference between AR and VR and XR
Devices - Hardware
Applications - Consumer and Business
Technology standards
Design fundamentals
Let’s do it !!!

7. VR | AR | MR | XR
Understand the difference
Virtual Augmented Mixed Extended

8. Virtual
Immersive
Block the real world
Teleport to a new world and time
Part of simulation
Augmented
Overlay information
View the real world
Present in time and space
Part of real world

13. Design Fundamentals Mobile AR
Single Hand use
Still a WINDOW - you can move around
3d in Flat screen
Interactions attached to world UI and not flat screen
Prompt to move around
Visual affordances to interactive elements

14. Design Fundamentals Mobile AR
Interactions and information based on Proximity
Portals - door to VR
Minimal animation which are grounded to plane
Add Text with background - solid or translucent
Feedback - sound, haptics
Embed a story, not just 3d popup

15. Everything is placed on a reference Plane
User onboarding every time for first 10 times

16. Tap
Swipe
Pinch
Voice
Facial expressions (ARKit)
Phone Gestures - Shake/Tilt
Air Gesture - Hand
Interactions

17. Technology
Unity
ARCore
ARKit
Vuforia
Marker based
Markerless
2D Image Tracking
Environment scanning
3d Object perception
Face AR
Body AR

18. Let’s Create !
Vuforia
Unity
Photoshop

19. Let’s Design

20. Let’s create

21. We are hiring
Front End Developer
Virtual Reality Programmers
3d Artist
UI Designer
UX Researcher
Flexible work hours
Equity options
Monthly Team activity
Lucrative package

22. Resources
AR in Action - Youtube channel

23. references
Finding FOV the easy way - http://doc-ok.org/?p=1274
https://www.blog.google/products/google-ar-vr/best-practic
es-mobile-ar-design/
https://code.likeagirl.io/design-lessons-from-mobile-ar-experiments-b32ea3f42bb
https://uxdesign.cc/the-principles-of-good-user-experience-design-for-augmented-reality-d8e22777
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