Aria The AR Platform 4+

like many others, I thought this was a super cool concept and was very excited to try it on my small record collection. I have three of the most well-known album covers of all time: Dark Side of the Moon, Sgt. Pepper’s, and Abbey Road. In addition I’ve got some other classic albums (Bowie, Fleetwood Mac (not Rumours which I know does work lol), Stevie Nicks, etc.).

Of all these only Abbey Road was recognised by the app. I’m not saying they should’ve focused only on classic music, but it seems a bit silly to not have expected annoyed reviews from people who wanted to try this app out on Dark Side of the Moon. I also think they should include a library/directory page where you can see what albums they do have artwork for — that might help make people’s expectations more realistic.

This app has such great potential yet is limited in scope by the developers. If artists outside of Alkanoids could use it it would have HUGE potential. I’m a painter/mixed media artist that has looked for an app to do the things this can do for some time. There is one other app that I know of, CreativeMuse, yet it’s platform is clunky and unrefined. Aria desperately needs to figure out how to make the technology available to the masses although I’ve followed them and been in contact with them for over a year and they are yet to get something together. Seems like they are losing $$$ everyday they waste not getting this into the hands of artist willing to pay for a subscription type service. Might just turn out to be a beautiful looking dud.

I have many albums yet it only animated one.. Boston’s hit album “Boston.” - was I disappointed? Not at all. I understand that the developers of this app are human, and it takes a good amount of work to create an animation for just a single album. I think this app has a lot of potential - I hope they really do something with it. But please don’t go on expecting all of your albums to suddenly be animated, chances are none of them might be - especially if most of what you own are indie or just less popular artists.. But again, for what it is it is amazing