Archive for the ‘Apps’ Category

Hemi Monitor

Friday, July 29th, 2022

This Quest 2 app was built to aid filming for dome theaters for Shadow Industries. The cameras and lenses are really quite specialised, and it’s tricky to tell whether you’re actually filming usable footage. This VR app helps with the whole process with customisable camera/lens configs, configurable domes and live feed via NDI. It’s designed to be used in remote locations where you don’t have the usual luxuries such as internet and electricity, other than the typical camera batteries etc that a film crew normally carries.

Contact Luke at Shadow Industries via their website if this is a tool you need on your film set.

Starship AR

Saturday, March 24th, 2018

The Shell Starship project was about communicating their shipping truck’s many energy saving efforts at conventions and expos to visitors. Along with the fabulous team at Shadow Industries, we built an iPad Augmented AR app that showed off the truck and all it’s details, on a plinth in the real world.

If you want to know more, check out these YouTube links:

Skip to 5m29sec to see the app in use

Hololens R&D

Monday, October 24th, 2016

The fantastic team and I at Shadow Industries got a chance to do some research and development for Shell on Microsofts fancy new Hololens. We discovered it was magical and terrible all at once! The tech is amazing, especially how stable it tracks the world and recognises obstacles. The GPU is underpowered to say the least!

This never turned into a full project, due to that lousy GPU. But it was fascinating to develop for. Microsoft had done a great job with everything about it, from the integration with Unity to the docs and examples. Just, not sure about the decision to include a GPU roughly equivalent to an iPhone 3!

Shell Helix AR Engine Statue

Thursday, October 13th, 2016

This giant cutaway model of an engine’s crankshaft, piston and valvetrain stands well over two metres tall and has augmented reality markers all over it. They work with a custom app on four iPads to create an interactive exhibition piece showing off Shell’s premium engine oil benefits.

I built the app, which had to be ultra simple to use, immersive and interactive. It had to take into consideration auto-resetting if abandoned, keeping the user interested and involved, but still moving them forward constantly so nobody could hog the iPads forever.

This app was built with the excellent team at Shadow Industries.

Shell Fire VR

Sunday, July 10th, 2016

Learn about Shell’s Helix Ultra product with this VR experience. If you can catch it at an exhibition, you’re sure to enjoy the spectacular wild ride around a construction yard in a red SUV.

Built with the amazing guys at Shadow Industries. We made three of these chairs for Shell to use at exhibitions around the world. They had to be rugged, easy to set up and easy to use for inexperienced show staff, and the public users they were guiding through the experience.

Championsheeps AR

Saturday, April 9th, 2016

2016-04-09 15.55.32Watch your favorite Shaun the Sheep Championsheeps episodes with this augmented reality app from Aardman Digital. Find physical marker images that unlock videos on your tablet or phone when viewed through the device’s camera. Can you find the secret video by combining four separate marker images?

Download for iPhone/iPad
Download for Android phone/tablet

Wonder.land Avatar Creator

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016

Create and 3D print your custom avatar in this custom iPad app. Built for the excellent Play Nicely agency in Bristol, for a custom exhibition at the National Theatre in London.

Watch the trailer here.

Boomerang Pet Photo Booth

Saturday, October 17th, 2015

Boomerang Pet Photo BoothSnap a photo of your pet, decorate it with stickers and send it to the Boomerang kids TV channel with this Instagram style app developed with Aardman Digital.

Download Pet Photo Booth for iOS

Download Pet Photo Booth for Android

Shaun in the City

Sunday, April 5th, 2015

shaun-in-the-city-1The Shaun in the City art trail is a series of 120 unique sculptures placed around London and Bristol. This app was created to help you find your way to each and every one, tick them off as you go, and much more besides! You’ll earn achievements along the way, discover details about the statues and have an all-round good time!

I developed this app with the lovely folks at Aardman Animations. Testing involved an eighteen hour day trip to London and ten hours of walking a marathon and a quarter to check the location of all the sheep! Bleat that if you dare!

shaun-in-the-city-2(Proceeds from app sales go to the charity)

Buy the app for your Android phone/tablet.

Buy the app for your iPhone/iPad.

Visit the Shaun in the City website.

Send a donation to the charity.

Milka Advent

Monday, November 17th, 2014

milka-introCelebrate the magic of Christmas with the Milka Advent Christmas Countdown app. Explore the snowy alpine world with your real Milka chocolate calendar, and discover a mini games and activities each day.

 

 

milka-countdownOnly available in Austria, Germany and France, the English screenshots you see here are from the development version, not available to the public. This app was developed with the lovely folks at Play Nicely for Mondelez.

 

 

milka-shareGet the app on iPhone/iPad

Get the app on Android

 

 

 

 

 

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