AR Jewellery

Inspiration

Mapuche jewellery is famous in my country, but often is disregarded for being too big, old, belonging to an ethnic minority or being too different for current types of jewellery. Also replicas that are on sale are made of silver and often are very expensive and not many would want to wear them.

What it does

I made an AR filter that you can try on Instagram to see how would they look on a person.

How I built it

I used photo references and blender to make a 3d version of it. Then I used SparkAR to put the jewellery in place on a head tracker and used an occluder for the head and neck pieces. The rest was texturing with PBR materials to give them reflections.

Challenges I ran into

Positioning the pieces so they could look good on any neck.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Made the filter a bit popular among some Instagrammers, other people (mostly women) commented that it was interesting because it looked really good and they were really proud that they could see that type of usage of AR for entertainment and discovery when most of the filters are masks without apparent cultural background. Also a local celebrity tried it on and liked it (and we didn't reach out to her to make her test it, she found it on her own).

What I learned

AR is very powerful in terms of what you can do for heritage, museography, and to rescue cultural patrimony.

What's next for AR Masks

Now I'm reaching out to museums and cultural organizations to provide services in the field of augmented reality, and they seem very interested in developing collections.

Also there will be an update in the future for the masks to add bones to the chest piece and a normal map for details on one of the silver plates.

Built With

• blender-sparkar-photoshop