The project

Neurotech and Belfast Hidden Tours, in collaboration with artist Mark Mullan, are developing an interactive app to capture and share authentic hidden stories from Belfast. The app focuses on inclusivity, particularly for children, young people, and those with accessibility needs, using AR technology to blend real-world environments with digital storytelling.

The technology

The call for this project required AR technology to be a fundamental element within the overal experience. We built a proof of concent app that showed how the technology could deliver the creative vision. The POC allowed us to show for real how creative assets could interact within the real world to deliver our vision.

We additionally explored how we might use AI tools to generate assets and process various interactions with users. We leveraged comfUI to create workflows that allowed us to quickly eplore various aesthetics and compositional approaches to convey our concepts and designs.

My work

I worked on the overal design and UX wireframes to convey the experience we were looking to deliver. I additionally developed the comfyUI workflows and trained some custom Loras (capturing the spirit and essence of Belfast) to generate the various assets we wanted to create and compose those assets within realworld imagery for use within AR.