Canonical Examples

SkyView

Published

Context

Outdoors at nighttime. 

Design concept

“SkyView brings stargazing to everyone. Simply point your iPhone, iPad, or iPod at the sky to identify stars, constellations, planets, satellites, and more!”

Experiential qualities and related concepts

Hybrid, locative serendipity, organic, place-specific, seductive, sublime, visibility.

Augmentation modality

Visual.

Technical options

AR phone app.

Prototyping techniques

In a room with markers (or a dummy-app) and a phone.

Source

SkyView app available for iPhone and Android.

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