Digital Creativity Week

Digital Creativity Week has twice used Wikipedia to integrate Augmented Reality into the students' work. In 2018, students were tasked with creating an immersive experience in our 3Sixty space at York.

Throughout the presentation were trigger images that fired off the students video and sound pieces.

Using Wikitude

Wikitude has an easy-to-use web-based Studio tool with which one can upload your trigger images. They are automatically ranked for "recognisability" by the app. You can make image recognition quicker by making the longest side of any trigger image no bigger than 1000 pixels, but this isn't strictly required.

Having added your trigger image, you can now overlay that with the mp4 movie you have created. Once added, you can set how the movie plays and if it has transparency etc.

You can also add images, texts and even hyperlinked buttons.

If your movies are below 10MB you can upload them directly into the Wikitude Studio, but we preferred to host them on York's FTP server because this allowed us to upload bigger movies.

But more importantly be able to see them as augmentations and then maybe improve on them and simply replace the files, which is a much easier way of working.