ARpoise : Augmented Reality point of interest service environment

ARpoise for mobile devices is available in the Apple App Store and in the Google Play store

On your mobile device, download ARpoise for Android from the Google Play store or ARpoise for iOS from the Apple App Store in order to view AR art works like Tamiko Thiel's "Lotus Meditation" anywhere in the world.

ARpoise for mobile devices is currently used for the following projects

• Homenaje a Lucio Fontana, by Alejandro Schianchi, launched June 2019.
• Evolution of Fish, by Tamiko Thiel and /p, launched May 2019.
• Lotus Meditation, by Tamiko Thiel and /p, launched March 2019.
• Unexpected Growth, by Tamiko Thiel and /p, launched September 2018.

Creating an open source Augmented Reality platform

Although commercial companies will continue to drive the development of cutting edge technical advances in 3d environment mapping and image recognition technology, there are many forms of AR that are relatively simple to implement and are very useful for academic and artistic purposes.

We started the open source augmented reality platform ARpoise to address these issues, beginning with the technically simple GPS based geolocative augmented reality, with the hope of creating a community that will expand on the system to include image-tracking and more technically challenging forms of AR as the technology progresses..

Want to help develop the platform?

The existing code includes:

• Unity3d based client software for both Android and iOS devices
• 3D content shown are downloaded over the web
• 3D content can be adjusted dynamically
• back-end web service, implemented in PHP
• web interface for quick adjustments of AR content in the field on mobile devices
• integration of image trigger functionality via the AR-vos app

Ideally, it would include these further steps:

• integration of SLAM functionality based on ARKit and ARCore
• integration of various glasses

Contact ARpoise project leaders

public@arpoise.com Peter Graf & Tamiko Thiel

Peter Graf is a software developer with over 25 years of experience and a pioneer in web server design - he helped bring the New York Times online for the first time back in 1995. He will consult on and guide further development as a technical advisor.

Tamiko Thiel is an internationally recognized augmented reality artist and co-founder of the legendary augmented reality artist group Manifest.AR. She participated in Manifest.AR's highly regarded guerrilla AR intervention into the Museum of Modern Art New York in 2010, and led their guerrilla intervention into the Venice Biennale in 2011 (See excerpt from Whitney Museum New Media Curator Christiane Paul's reference book Digital Art). Her official participations and commissions include venues such the Istanbul Biennale (official parallel project), the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, FACT Liverpool, Ars Electronica, the Zero1 Biennial in Silicon Valley, the Seattle Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She has taught AR as an art form at the Berlin University of the Arts (Germany), Duke University (USA), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and the University of Art and Design Linz (Austria). As the head of packaging design for Thinking Machines Corporation in the mid-1980s she is on the Honor Roll of the IT History Society for the visual form of the Connection Machine CM-1/CM-2 and a co-holder of TMC's patent for a "Method for Interconnecting Processors in Hyper-Dimensional Array" for the Connection Machine CM-1 parallel supercomputer. One of the few surviving CM-2s is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She will accompany the development process as advisor in the areas of functionality and user interface.