Augmented Reality-Based Mobile App for iOS Users
The client
Kunster is an augmented reality app from Netguru’s R&D work that shifts your surroundings into a given painter’s style. The idea is that art is around us wherever we are — it is a question of perception.
It uses the most recognisable works and artists: Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa, Munch’s Scream, Picasso.
The challengeWhat the teams actually needed
Our aim is to point our research capability at real problems. Alongside commercial work we build educational and non-profit projects that benefit the wider community.
Challenge 01Art without the museum
People with limited access to a gallery should still be able to experience how the greatest painters saw the world.
Challenge 02Two generations at once
The app had to engage digital natives and older audiences alike, which rarely happens by accident.
Challenge 03Stylisation on a phone
Running video stylisation on a mobile device, in the right format, is the technical problem underneath the whole idea.
What we did
Step through a portal into a painting
The app overlays a portal onto your physical surroundings; walk through it and the world appears as though the artist you chose had painted it.
A portal over the room
Augmented reality places the portal in the space the user is actually standing in.
The artist you pick
The surroundings shift into the style of the selected painter, which is where the machine learning work sits.
Recorded and sent
Users record video of the transformed world and share it with friends or on social media.
Beyond the effect
People can read about the painter, take a quiz on their work, or find the museums where the paintings hang.
Netguru quote
Kunster gives you the museum experience without leaving your living room. It uses real-time style transfer to take the user into the world of famous artists.
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