All About AR

ALL ABOUT AR (Augmented Reality) invites young makers to step beyond the flat screen and into the 3 dimensional world of immersive storytelling. This LitKit introduces the Z-axis—depth—as a creative and technical frontier in augmented reality and spatial computing. Makers explore digital layering, animated overlays, and holographic illusions through hands-on activities, including a DIY Holobox inspired by Pepper’s Ghost and Fantasmorphia techniques. Using the AR Maker Tool app, they design and launch custom AR experiences that leap off printed markers included in the kit.

From 19th-century stage magic to today’s immersive tech, this kit connects past to future while empowering teens to design the next dimension and be prepared for the future of the internet.

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The All About AR LitKit includes:

Activities

XYZ Enchanted Forest: This low-tech, high-imagination exercise introduces the fundamentals of spatial computing, perspective, and scene composition. Using frogs, fairies, mushrooms and more, makers create a 3D scene using 2D elements, by arranging characters, props, and backgrounds along the X (left/right), Y (up/down), and Z (depth) axes.

Holobox: Assemble and explore the illusions behind holographs with the LitKit Holobox and video compilation. Make your own videos and learn what subject matter and lighting makes or breaks the magic.

Maker Tool app: with printed markers: pre-loaded images, animations, sounds and effects for creating AR unique wow-worthy activations in 3D

+ 3 ARt collectibles that put Augmented Reality, immersive tech and spatial computing into context for learners

+ AR-powered Instructional zines offer immersive instruction and storytelling that teach about the ancestors of AR and the future of mixed-reality, while providing inspiration through examples and prompts designed by artists and pros

BONUS: This kit comes with a coupon for 10% off Artivive’s augmented reality software.