Sihwa Park
Environment
3rd floor
ARLooper is an AR-based mobile interface for multi-user sound recording and performance that aims to explore the possibilities of AR for the creation of novel musical interfaces and collaborative audiovisual experiences. ARLooper allows the user to record sound through microphones in mobile devices and, at the same time, visualizes and places recorded sounds as 3D waveforms in an AR space. The user can play, modify, and loop these recorded sounds with several audio filters attached to each sound. Since ARLooper employs ARKit’s tracking technique called visual-inertial odometry to track the real world and a correspondence between real and AR spaces by combining information from camera sensor data with the device’s motion sensor data, multiple users can connect to the same AR space in which recorded sounds are shared and can see each other’s activities, such as selection and manipulation of sound waveforms.