A LIQUID DESIGN Hosted Event

An AR Workshop Event Held in Tottori Prefecture

We held an AR workshop event celebrating creativity and imagination

Event Overview

Date: Saturday, May 20, 2023
Venue: Tottori Prefectural Budokan

Purpose of the Event

To create opportunities to experience AR (augmented reality) technology within the rapidly evolving world of XR
To create opportunities to feel closer to art, which expresses free-form ideas, through hands-on making
To create opportunities to take an interest in Tottori's natural beauty (its starry skies) and the myth of the White Hare of Inaba

Event Content

The theme was outer space, a natural fit for Tottori Prefecture, the "Star-Taking Prefecture" with the most beautiful starry skies in Japan.
Each participant built a spaceship out of a plastic cup. Using materials of their choice, such as tissue paper and pipe cleaners, they decorated it to complete a spaceship all their own. One of the materials was an AR marker, letting participants place an AR character aboard the spaceship they had made. The serious expressions on the children's faces as they worked, and the sight of parents and children enjoying the activity together, left a strong impression.
In addition, the AR experience "Moso Uchu" (Imaginary Space), created specially for this event, was made to appear through participants' smartphones and tablets. When they looked through their phones, everyone was fascinated by the rabbit, shark, and stars of the imaginary world appearing inside the spacious gymnasium. They took photos and videos on their phones and enjoyed themselves freely.

About the AR Technology

For this event, we planned and developed the WebAR experiences listed below.
All of them can be experienced without a dedicated app.

Attaching a marker to a handmade craft so that an AR character appears on your own creation
A sticker that combines the QR code needed to view the AR with the marker that triggers the AR
AR planets and characters appearing through spatial recognition, making full use of the gymnasium's large open space
An AR photo frame with animations and stamps (at the AR experience corner)
A face-recognition AR photo frame (at the AR experience corner)

An AR character appearing from a handmade craft

AR planets appearing in the space

"White Hare of Inaba" 55th Anniversary Campaign

We also prepared a campaign so that people who could not attend the event could enjoy AR as well.
As a 55th anniversary campaign for the "White Hare of Inaba," it features an AR experience starring an adorable white hare. Participants posted fun photos of the white hare AR on Instagram, and after judging, prizes were sent to four winners. Every submitted photo was inventive and fun.
Here are the four award-winning entries!

Event Survey Results

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LIQUID DESIGN Ltd.

Provider of "LIQUID AR," an app-free AR/VR content creation platform.
Thanks to WebAR technology, you can experience AR/VR right away with no dedicated app to install.
Patent pending on our AR-related imaging system.

Kotobuki Seika Co., Ltd.

A comprehensive confectionery producer that develops regional brands centered on its celebrated sweet "Inaba no Shirousagi" (White Hare of Inaba).
Focusing on the San'in region, the company carefully nurtures local culture and tradition as regional brands in the form of confectionery.
URL: https://www.okashinet.co.jp/

Art unit "Moso Koen"

Juri Inoue / Marie Kobayashi / Ayaka Dogen / Osamu Miyauchi
Four people who cherish worlds of imagination that transform the reality in front of us, undertaking a variety of projects to share the freedom to imagine with others.
URL: https://mosokoen.weebly.com/