This document summarizes a student group project to create an augmented reality wall in Plymouth, England. The group generated initial ideas like a barcode product app or crowdsourced painting. They decided to create an augmented reality wall by collecting drawings from the public on paper and A4 clips around campus and town. Inspiration came from a large hopscotch art project and the East Side Gallery border wall. Research covered augmented reality, Unity for app development, and collecting drawings with a poster. The resulting demo app allowed viewing the drawings together on an augmented reality wall of Plymouth. The tight schedule and snow caused some issues, but adaptation of plans and an enthusiastic public response made the project realistic.

2. The Plymouth Wall

3. Angus
-Promotional video
Dillon
-Unity
development
Melanie Laura
Group
Members
-Research
-Crowdsourcing
organisation

4. Initial ideas
● Barcode Product augmented reality
● Twitter updated map
● Twitter late bus
● Crowdsourced painting

5. Idea development
● Large canvas in the town centre
● Create one big final canvas
● A4 paper and clipboards around university campus and town centre
● Augmented reality wall

6. Inspiration
Agustina Woodgate
● Creator of world’s largest
hopscotch
● Successfully turned the
childhood game into a
work of public art

7. East Side Gallery
● The East Side Gallery is the
longest open air gallery in
the world.
● It used to form the border
between the East and
West Berlin
● Rejection of what the
original purpose was
Inspiration

8. Research
Augmented Reality
● An indirect live view of a physical
real life environment which is
‘augmented’ due to technology.
● AR can be used within any industry
to promote products by visualising
real life and ‘augmented’ life
together
● AR took the app market by storm in
2016 with Pokemon Go
● Since Pokemon Go, many
businesses have seen that AR is a
huge market to sell and create
products for people of different
ages, demographics and purposes

9. Research
Unity
● A cross platform game engine which
can create 2D and 3D video games,
simulations, mobile phone platforms
● It supports 27 different platforms such
as iOS, Android, Windows, Xbox One
and any more
● It can also be used for AR and VR,
which is useful for app creation on the
different platforms

10. Planning
What we wanted to do….
Initial plan:
● Go to Big Screen in Plymouth
● Give out pens and paper
● Collect drawings and scan in
● Make one large image of drawings
Revised plan:
● The large image evolved into the creation
of an AR wall of Plymouth
● The separate drawings would be placed
instead onto the AR wall
● Went around Plymouth Uni campus and
Drakes circus to collect drawings

11. Poster
● Information for the public
● Why we needed their
drawings
● What it will be used for
● How they can help us

12. Video
Planning/Creation

14. Looking back
The good
● project idea was realistic for time
● Adaptation from original plans
● Enthusiastic and large response from the contributors
The issues
● Initial idea generation
● Building the app on a tight schedule
● Snow....

15. Demo
https://www.mediafire.co
m/file/cmibp3dpp27osdo/
PlymouthWall.apk