Project goal:
Create a set of interactive fashion that can generate creative visual effects inside the AR environment, which enables people to wear the clothes as well as play with it.
Concept description:
The AR fashion set includes a live coding vest, a pet bracelet, and a sound hat:
Live coding vest:
The vest will look be like this:
There are markers attached to the front and back of the vest. In the AR environment, all the markers will become dynamic visual effects that can be live coded like the picture below. And different markers will represent different visual effects:
Pet bracelet:
Below is a prototype design of the pet bracelet:
A cute pet can be generated on top of the marker in the AR environment:
Sound hat:
This is a hat that can react to the sound. It will be like this:
The rectangles on the hat are placeholders for light bars. There will be a sound sensor attached to the hat to make the light react to the sounds, which are viewable in both the real-world environment and the AR environment. In AR, apart from the light changes, there will be visual effects covered the hat, for example, the spinning dots like this:
Artist questions:
- Do you foresee any issues or problems with the interactive fashion set that I should be aware of?
- Do you prefer to have a theme for all the visual effects, or keep freedom and use random effects?
Claire,
I think this project seems so cool! What I like most is that its on a bracelet that you can wear. It is like you can have your own pet with you at all times!
To answer your second question, I do think you should have a theme! The pet seems to like band and music, so maybe the theme would be that type of stuff!
Are you going to use your Scratch stuff for this project like the last one? It turned out really good with the planets!
-TIm
Hi Tim, thanks for your feedback! Yeah, I will use the same technology as the last project but add some scripts to make the AR more interactable.
This looks really fun! I think it would be cool to have a selection of themed outfits, where you could choose pieces from freely. For example, maybe the cello bear is paired with a matching hat and suit, and then you could have one or two other outfit sets with different themes.
As far as issues or problems, I think your demos worked really well and I would expect this to work just as well! However, it could be difficult to get everything in the frame at once so that you can see the full outfit.
This will be great to see once it’s finished!
Hi Josiah, Thanks for your feedback! I like your idea about having the pet wearing the same outfits
Hi Claire, I like your idea and it seems really fun!
To answer your first question, the one issue I could see is the person wearing everything missing out on all the visuals syncing together. This might be the intended experience for them, if so ignore this comment.
To answer your second question, I think a theme would be cool but you could also have randomization within a theme if you want to keep that element of surprise/different every time.
Hope this helps and looking forward to seeing the finished project!
These are all really fun ideas! I’m especially curious about the Sound Hat. I’m interested to know more about what types of LEDs, microcontroller, and battery you’re planning to use. I’ve done some wearable electronics stuff as well, let me know if I can be of any assistance.
This project is so cool Claire, excited to see this WOW!
How are you able to keep tracking as the person is moving, does this cause problems with the subtle changes of the human? I agree the theme will help bring all the parts of the project together but maybe their could be a random effect that speaks to something in the future or past that can make the user wonder or ask questions.
This is such a cool concept. I love the idea of a vest as it coordinates really well with the musician polar bear. Consider using a belt of some kind on the side of the vest so it is possible to resize for anyone. I am thinking of something like the vests people use in laser tag. Also, a stiffener, like interfacing will help the images on the vest lay flatter to help with recognition.
I really like this concept a lot. Kudos.