Client: Australian National Maritime Museum
Design and Programming: Scott Ashton
Exhitbition Design: Chris Mether
3D Modelling: Jack Crosby
Date: April 2015
The James Caird tells the story of the treacherous crossing of the Drake Passage from Antarctica to South Georgia by Ernest Shackleton and 5 brave crew members. Their boat and one of its lifeboats. The AR completely superposes the physical exhibit, showing the stages of building, and filling the glass case to create a "cube of ocean".
Hardware: iPad Air 2
Software: Unity 3D using Vuforia SDK
Language: C# and GLSL
As one of the biggest technical challenges of the exhibition, we're very proud to have realised the goal of seeing the tiny boat being tossed around on a realtime animated ocean on a mobile device.