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What is location-based augmented reality?
An AR experience where the content makes sense based on the user’s GPS location. That is, any experience that can be based on a user’s GPS position (the same signal that Google Maps relies on to locate us), to which an extra visual layer of augmented reality is added. For example, when you stand on Brighton seafront close to Banjo Groyne, the app Pioneer displays arrows showing you the distance and direction you need to walk to see the train. This would be an example of geopositioned augmented reality. The app is specific to revealing Pioneer sea train, this context is a key part of localised AR experiences, and part of that context is provided by the user’s GPS position.
This guest appears to peer throught the windows of the train as the viewer's phone has detected she is standing on the original departure site of Banjo Groyne on the beach where once was a jetty.
Another example of AR in art is this 3D record player hovers in space using the phone's camera and the geometry of the room for floors and table surfaces, it can be fully examined from all angles even underneath. At the same time it plays the special recording 'Pioneer' music, a dub-style record with voice samples about time travel and space. A limited edition of 100 were made and can be purchased from the shop here.
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