In collaboration with Hochbahn in Hamburg, we conceptualized and developed an innovative Augmented Reality (AR) application for the Jungfernsteig platform. This famously complex area has been the subject of humorous social media posts due to its labyrinthine layout. The app transforms this frustration into engagement by gamifying the experience: users can participate in a fun mini-game to navigate to the correct exit, while also being able to engage with various events and promotions throughout the station.

My part:

• Helpt with AR indoor tracking
• I optimized a 1:1 lidar 3D scan of an entire underground subway station, encompassing all hallways and entrances, to enable real-time rendering on mobile devices. To achieve this, I used retopology and UV unwrapping techniques to optimize the dataset for efficient rendering and visualization.

Weitersehen is an AR app for a cycle tours in Germany through the area of Rhine-Neckar. Where you can scan a marker with your mobile phone at several stations to play AR mini-games or get more information about the area

My part:

• Created several mini AR games, including a sorting game, quizzes, a scavenger hunt, a fishing game and a maze
1. For this, I designed my own content event system, which reacts to several user actions in order to implement new game mechanics quick and easy and allow the communication with other content or the UI to share progress and trigger actions
• Designed 3D models of relics and sandbags
• Optimise 3D scans for mobile realtime rendering
• Create and render different 3D animations for AR videos
• Video and image optimisations to reduce the download size and keep the quality

AR app for the Meissen Porcelain Museum exhibition. The user can experience the museum in an interactive story. Virtual holograms and beautifully designed virtual portals appear to bring the history of the manufactory closer to the user and tell a story that doesn't take itself too seriously

My part:

• Supports the creation of virtual AR holograms
• Use jungle content (palms, bushes, stones, animals) to create new worlds
• Customised scavenger hunt version for small spaces in the museum
• Coffee table clicking game (Set the table with Meissen porcelain)
• Create Bird and flower prefabs with animation
• Clickable expanding POIs to provide further information in certain areas of the museum
• Particle systems for atmosphere and puzzle effects
• Content & shader optimisation

Freibuddy is an AR game that tells several stories of the Jewish community in Freiburg. The user is involved in the story and has to make several decisions. The app also visualises traditions with the help of mini-games and tries to bring things closer to the user in a playful way.

My part:

• AR Quiz playing cards
• Implementation of a story based AR sorting game in which the user has to sort images and documents in a timeline in the correct order
• Interactive and clickable stand-up displays

Is a interactive AR-RPG game that tells the story of the Manderscheid Castle. For this, the GALLION films studios created a storyboard with several dialog decision options and delivered professional recordings from real actors to create a real AR RPG experience. Please have a look at the linked (german) teaser to get a better impression of the project.

My part:

• Create a scene-independent scavenger hunt, catch rats in the castle to receive a surprise at the end of the game
• Create clickable POI panels which play further information with the help of audio guides
• AR UI compass
• Help integrating app design
• Create and add props

HSH AR app is an exclusive exhibition where users can experience the canteen kitchen and the sleeping area of the Stasi prison in Hohenschönhausen. Not only information displayed with POI panels, but also volumetric captured witness reports from Volucap GmbH can be experienced where surviving prisoners tell their stories.

My part:

• Implement the Volucap API to playback the volumetric captured hologram videos and implement UI video controls
• Support creating POIs and App content parts
• 3D scan of Kitchen-machine, optimization for real-time rendering and creating a appealing animation for the presentation
• Create 1:1 hallway model as AR tour helper (Support the ML-Room recognition)

The HSH webtour tells the story of the Stasi prison in Hohenschönhausen. The user can walk through the prison wing independently and learn about the stories and events that took place there. If you would like to see the tour for yourself, you can experience the tour at the link below.

My part:

• Creating a 3D scan of a complete jailhouse:
1. Prison cells
2. Hallways
3. Interrogation room
4. Prison props
• Retopology and texture optimisation (Fixing missing texture informations or blurry texture parts, reconstruct mission 3D scan parts)

Adlon AR is a AR app for the Adlon hotel in Berlin to give users insights into the luxurious hotel. A butler talks about his work and his outstanding experiences in the hotel. The user can also get an insight into the Royal suite and other areas of the hotel that an average visitor would never see.

My part:

• Realise 3D scans of a fountain, several cakes, a coffee table and the windows / curtains of the Royal Suite
1. Retopology and texture optimisation
2. Create interactive 3D content (Royal Suite window panorama with clickable elements)
3. Build a water shader for the fountain
• Created a AR 3D intro scene
• Created 2D splash screen animation
• Record green screen videos of a stuffing for AR-holograms

OnSet tells the story of film history in Berlin. There are several stations that the user can visit and find out which famous films were filmed at which location. What equipment was used and what does it look like behind the scenes.

My part:

• Optimise models of 3D scans of real movie-cameras
• Created a movie quiz game
• Create interactive breaking floor with videos
• Optimise client images and videos

Campaign in cooperation with Zaddy's by Kaplan, users were asked on the street if they wanted to take part in an AR-scavenger hunt. If they found all the hidden parts, they received a free kebab.

My part:

• Create first version of AR Scavenger hunt mini game
1. Integrate UI with progressbar, tutorial and timer
2. Implement game logic
3. Create shader to hide objects an fade in them user gets close to them
• Create a 3D Scan of kebab and optimise for real time rendering

AR time travel app that tells the more or less glamorous stories of St.Pauli (district in Hamburg, Germany). With the help of virtual breaking walls and photos from the MOPO archive from certain areas of the neighbourhood, users can take a look behind the scenes of some famous clubs from the past and experience the incredible stories that have taken place in this location.

My part:

• Interactive breaking walls and breaking floor
1. Multiple Scans from different Locations
2. Retopology and texture optimisation (Fixing missing texture informations or blurry texture parts)
3. Texture baking
4. Animate models
• Optimise videos for mobile playback
• Create layered images (parallax effects)

My part:

• Implement interactive AR mini games like Scavenger Hunt and a AR Crossword game with clickable letters
• Create sparkle particle effects to direct the attention of the user to certain objects
• Optimise and import 3D models
• Create layered images (parallax effects)
• Client content optimisation

OpAR is a AR mobile app to get insides from the Opera house along the Rhein in Germany (Duisburg and Düsseldorf). The user can experience the stages from a different perspective and see small parts of the current shows.

My part:

• Create Breaking wall model and animation: Is triggered by the user by walking closer to the wall, the wall is located in the place of the original wall with the same texture and merges with the real world. After breaking, a portal opens to a slide show of the history of the opera house
1. Created 3D model of Wall
2. Used phyical simulation to animate the breaking process
3. Implement AR trigger to start an reset the animation
4. Created slideshow logic for the content inside the wall
• Custom snake animation which interacts with an pre-recorded video of a actor to fit the real world on location of the opera house
• Create and unwrap a Sphere for 360 photos and implement triggers to start a audio guides when the user is inside that sphere
• Modeling and animating a red curtains add trigger logic to start the animation
• Optimised client content (video file size, image resolution)

Small project for the Palmengarten Frankfurt. Here you can use a photo station to take pictures of yourself with some additional AR effects. Users can scan a QR code to download their image afterwards.

My part:

• Optimise images and videos for the photo station and create unity AssetBundles for content loading at runtime

AR experience at the Dachau memorial concentration camp. Where users are guided around the area with the help of the app. Drawings of the prisoners, videos, 3D models and an audio guide are used to illustrate the events and history of the memorial site.

My part:

• Implemented interactive AR mini games, styled like a comic book (Drawings from the prisoners). Where you can make decisions in a small story and the characters react to it in a Speech Bubble.
• Created a shader that allows you to slowly fade out certain parts of a 3D model as you get closer to create an X-ray effect
• Create layered image prefabs (AR parallax effects)
• Optimise client content

My part:

• Created a internal notification system to show the user additional information about the App and AR content

Small tower defence like game programmed in Unity which is easy to play with just one hand. It offers several features such as different levels and a weapon upgrade system and was developed in a few weeks for the Google Playstore. A PC version was added later on itch.io. I created everything on my own. From the programming part to the UI and the 3D models and their animations.

My part:

• Design and implement a interactive graphical element that responds dynamically to user input. I used a particle stream arranged on the bottom of the screen that flows in random directions. When a button is pressed, force fields are activated which cause the particle stream to flow to the selected button.

My part:

• Build a visual 3D mesh system, which is randomly generated and reacts to the user inputs by changing colours and move in direction of the touch input. (Background)
• Integration of product cards that react to user inputs and automatically switch to the foreground. These support multi-touch inputs for movement, scaling and can display images, scrollable text, videos, websites and further supports taps and popups to display additional content.
• Create a 3D-mesh to Map animation and show more information about the client and their locations
• CMS communication for remote application configuration and content updates

My part:

• Implementation of a business application on a large multi-touch display in combination with a secound display to visualise AI data for energy management.
• Marker and touch input logic (UI updates and API request)
• Presentation mode with unfoldable 3d spheres showing various content types (Images, Videos, PDF, Websites)
• CMS communication for remote application configuration and content updates
• Network communication between table and wall pc to respond to user input and UI updates