Make 5 Free Awesome Augmented Reality Experiences Today

Explore augmented reality as a digital layer over your environment. Identify devices like smartphones or tablets, glasses, or head-up displays that connect to the internet and run compatible software.

Compare augmented reality with virtual reality and mixed reality to show AR overlays a digital layer on real world via phone, tablet, or heads-up display. Virtual reality offers immersive experiences.

Explore human centered design and design thinking to create five augmented reality experiences. Empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test with a bias toward action and learning by doing.

Clarify the intent of your augmented reality experience by aligning design considerations, human-centered design, and design thinking with a focused goal, ensuring all features support that purpose.

Develop augmented reality experiences by applying basic technology skills, like navigating websites, downloading and uploading files, positioning images, and installing the zapper app on a smartphone or tablet.

Create your Zappar account by visiting zap dot works, choose between personal or business options with free trials, register, verify your email, and optionally receive a discount on paid plans.

Explore how augmented reality enhances a standard business card by scanning with the zapper app to reveal LinkedIn groups, profiles, and actionable contact options.

Design an augmented reality business card from a human-centered perspective, empathize with users, define the effect of forgettable cards, and enable contact saving with LinkedIn links to showcase your work.

Learn to create an ar business card with step-by-step instructions in zap works: log in, build a zip code widget, upload images and web links, publish, and import into PowerPoint.

Test your augmented reality business card with trusted users, gather feedback, and observe reactions. Iterate by adding widgets, galleries, resume links, and videos to personalize the experience.

Explore how augmented reality enhances thank you cards, letting you view pictures, move the card, and watch short videos or YouTube videos to share moments.

Apply human centered design to empathize and redefine the problem of traditional thank you notes, then blend adorable dog photos and dog-video moments with words for a memorable gratitude expression.

Create an augmented reality handwritten thank-you note by building a project in Zack works, uploading two videos and a photo album, adding a YouTube video, publishing, then downloading zip code.

Enhance a printed photo and make it come alive using augmented reality by zapping it to reveal a giant lizard attack in downtown Los Angeles, with the video staying attached.

Explore human centered design for augmented reality photos by turning static moments into looping, narratively enriched stories that bring downtown Los Angeles and a lizard sculpture to life with AR.

Record a video on your smartphone, edit, trim, apply filters, then share or work on it from your computer; log on to zap works and create a zip code.

Combine a screen capture and zip code layout in PowerPoint, size and caption, group, save as picture, edit zip code and add a video that plays on start and print.

Explore the experience by turning a poster into an interactive augmented reality story: scan with Zapper, watch and swap videos, track movement, pause, and enlarge to full screen.

Apply human-centered design to transform traditional restaurant signs into an augmented reality experience with embedded videos that explain how dishes are prepared, increasing customer engagement and loyalty.

Create the AR sign in PowerPoint, finish the videos, and log into zap works to build the augmented reality experience, then customize a zip code and choose the style.

Edit the AR experience by uploading and verifying the tracking image, sizing videos to cover scenes, and creating navigation buttons to switch between them before publishing.

Explore ar-enabled experiences by scanning an object to unlock a 360-degree immersive view with sounds and location information, navigable by tapping buttons and looking around.

Explore design considerations for an augmented reality interactive 360 photo, emphasizing human-centered design, immersive viewing with ambient beach sounds, and linking stories via a blog button.

Learn to build an interactive 360 photo in Zap Works Studio by importing assets, swapping a photosphere, adjusting focal length, looping beach audio, and adding a tappable button.

Revisit design considerations for five augmented reality experiences, emphasizing human-centered design, user-first engagement, novelty, and iterations using multiple modalities including audio visual, guided by brain science.

Share your augmented reality projects with fellow students to inspire ideas and boost discoverability. Connect with augmented reality professionals via the LinkedIn group and zap works forums to collaborate.