The Gosport project looked to utilise Augmented Reality to create an app visitors could use in order to navigate around Gosport through the different "Zones" Each zone would lead you to various museums or points of interest as well as offering AR pop ups of models and animations to immerse the visitor in the history of Gosport.
This application was developed for mobile, so assets were modelled and textured accordingly, once again the focus being low poly efficient models to allow the application to run on mobile devices. Despite this project not yet being available, the application has gone through a bunch of user testing. Development continues with this project and it's next phase of production.
Below are some of the initial prototype zone models as well as versions of the map implementing some of the feature pieces visitors would be able to see on the map.
These are the models I created to show on the AR map the interesting locations.
This is a model of an old ammo train which ran up and down an ammo dump in Gosport. The building is now the Powder Monkey Brewery and you can still see the channel down the centre (shown below) where the little train actually ran up and down.
So we recreated an experience where a visitor could scan a marker and the app would show them the train (shown below) running up and down in the space it would have all those years ago!
Below is another AR experience that we created based on the statues in the Explosion Museum. These statues depict people wheeling crates of ammunition backwards and forwards and we recreated that! So when visitors scan a marker they can see those statues walking up and down.
At the time of creation the centre's new Photogrammetry suite was not open so to do this I captured myself and a colleague in Volumetric Capture and then extracted a single frame mesh from the data. I then retextured them and they were animated along with the trolleys I modelled.
I also created two versions of the explosion museum, an exterior model and a model with half walls showing the floor plan. These are used in the app to show the explosion museum on approach but then allows visitors to use the half wall version to navigate the space within the museum and work out where they are.
