Curious about the upcoming weather? Just look up!
Team Roles
Davide Zhang: Ideation, Technical Pipeline, Scripting, Prototyping
Aria Xiying Bao: Ideation, UX Design, Animation
Overview
Type: AR Prototyping Project
Time Frame: Jan 2022
Keywords: AR Foundation, Unity, Lightship ARDK, ARKit
Look Up is an AR prototype imagining the future of weather forecasts. It utilizes Niantic's Lightship ARDK depth estimation and occlusion capabilities to allow the user to check the upcoming weather by simply looking up to the sky.
Scenarios
Virtual clouds float in the sky to indicate cloudy weather in the next hour
Water bubbles float in the sky to indicate the chance of rain
Virtual lightning and clouds to indicate an imminent thunderstorm
We also explored with a surreal moon to indicate sunny weather at night (prototype filmed during the day)
A surreal sun to forecast sunny weather
