Resources

AR Practitioners/Teams

• Google Creative Lab AR Experiments
• Apple WWDC 2019 AR Demos
• Magic Leap
• Spatial: real-time VR workplace collaboration
• more to come

AR Mobile Apps

A great place to start familiarizing yourself with the state of augmented reality in everyone’s pocket today. Most links are iOS but this is not on purpose – usually a quick Google query will yield the Android version.

• Weird Type
• Ruler or MeasureKit - AR Ruler Tape
• IKEA Place
• World Brush
• SkyGuide AR
• Holo
• AR Runner
• Google Maps: AR Mode
• NYTimes: Meet Olympics Athletes
• Pokémon Go
• MineCraft Earth

Software Tools

UI Design

• Figma: web-based (thus cross-platform), great for collaboration. Here’s a great tutorial to get started.
• Invision: web-based, common professional prototyping and user testing tool.
• Origami: developed by Facebook as internal tool. Uses visual programming, only one on this list that allows prototyping with live camera feed (example.)
• Sketch: Mac-only common professional interface design tool (free for 30 days, or education license for $50.)

Mobile AR

• Vuforia in Unity
• Snapchat Lens Studio
• Facebook Spark AR

User-Centered Design

• Google Ventures posts on User Research
• Mozilla UX Blog
• Prof. Amy Ko: Design Methods
• Open Design Kit
• Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction by Interaction Design Foundation

3D Asset Libraries

Nearly all optimized for AR/VR; many free, some pay-per-download.

• Unity Asset Store
• Google Poly
• SketchFab