ARium 4+

A creative use of an app that gives me the same type of amusement and experience I get visiting a modern art museum and walking around an intriguing mobile or sculpture in motion. It’s entertaining to get the floating AR sculpture objects going in different environments. A bit like playing a puzzle or spinning a spinner- it’s entertaining and intriguing AR sculpture. May take a moment to see yellow dots that you then click on to have cool balls, cylinders and other objects appear. You can then walk around the sculpture viewing it through your mobile device.

Here’s a new way to engage with sculpture, by situating it as a digital object in any three-dimensional environment. The key to this app is simplicity: just tap where you want the sculpture to go, then interact and approach as you would with a physical object in a gallery. It’s fun to see what happens to it in different environments, and the app makes it easy to take and send image captures. Surely we can expect to see many more apps like this, with augmented reality opening the door for a whole new kind of sculpture practice.

The application only does a few things, letting you add various objects to your camera view, wrap objects with photos, and capture images. A good way to explore current Apple augmented reality capabilities.