Step into Scotland
Portal AR is an Augmented Reality app which allows users to explore Scotland. The app is a result of the partnership between a number of organisations promoting Scotland, including Visit Scotland, Talent Scotland and Scotland.org. The app allows users to experience 360 videos and images for a range of locations in Scotland.
The Portal AR app was a first of its kind. When I created the first portal prototype on ARCore and posted it on Twitter, it got a lot of attention. This got me in touch with companies such as Snapchat and Google, who were interested in the potential of the technique. Many AR apps on the market at the time were experiments or novelties. Portal AR has the novelty value of going into a portal, but is also designed to be functional and provide a useful experience for people interested in finding out more about what it’s like to live, study work or invest in Scotland.
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