The DoSeum CityLab MobileAR application for iOS and Android by INDE

About the application
We created a MobileAR application for The DoSeum - a San Antonio children's museum that encourages young minds to explore the joy of learning through connections to STEM, the arts, and literacy - that lets visitors bring a part home with them. The DoSeum: CityLab application allows its young users to explore how to build a city around values.
Players can choose from different value card categories (health, nature, arts & culture, education, etc.). Each card has a little symbol such as a bus, a bicycle and a house, and they all further represent actual values within that category, e.g. hospital, science center, art museum, school, university.
Kids can create their future city through Augmented Reality cards, using the different value elements. As the value cards are placed on the table, the city comes alive when viewed through a smartphone or a tablet. Complex animations, sounds, moving humans and objects start appearing with the placement of each value.
Creating a healthy, well-balanced infrastructure is only possible by using one of each value category when building the city, the time limit for which is 1 minute 30 seconds. When the time is up, a flood comes, and only a city with all values represented will survive.
We had to implement 3D illustrator Timothy J. Reynolds signature low-polygon style into a working solution with corresponding animations and matching real-time rendering style for mobile technology, using the 3D models he specifically created for the project.
About INDE's MobileAR
INDE’s MobileAR application platform operates on iOS and Android smartphones, tablets and wearable devices to create incredible Augmented Reality experiences straight out of the box.
MobileAR is a creative and highly effective education and entertainment tool that adds an extra layer of information - content such as 3D characters, image, video, text, sound and more - to everyday objects and environments.