There are a few important things to alimony in mind when getting your first AR-powered tattoo.
We’ve seen a lot of tomfool ways augmented reality (AR) technology has been used to bring the world virtually us to life with digital content. What’s expressly tomfool well-nigh AR is that you can use any image to launch an experience.
I recently made the visualization of getting a new tattoo and decided to use the Eyejack app to bring my ink to life with a tomfool AR volatility accompanied by old-timey jazz music. Sufficeth to say the results were fantastic.
Getting the tattoo took a little planning with my tattoo versifier and with the versifier who created the image and animation. I wanted to share my wits with you so you can prepare for the steps needed to wow your friends at parties.
Getting the tattoo is pretty much like any other tattoo session, but there are some things to alimony in mind:
Obviously, your first step is to find an image you like. Something you’ll finger good well-nigh having permanently etched on your soul for the rest of your life. When in 2020, I discovered the AR work of Pixelpuncha on Instagram and became obsessed with his Thunderkitty Hellcat image and animation. I knew I wanted to have that tattooed at some point slantingly the animation.
Before we jump further, I thought it would be tomfool to get to know Pixelpuncha and learn increasingly well-nigh his artwork and how he got into AR technology.
“Back in 2016, Sutu approached me and asked if I’d like to be involved in an AR typesetting project he was putting together tabbed ‘Prosthetic Reality’,” said Pixelpuncha. “The typesetting would use a new app that he and Lukasz Karluk had created tabbed Eyejack, and included 45 artists and animators from all virtually the world.”
“Firstly I was a big fan of Sutu’s work and secondly the whole concept of augmented reality just ignited my imagination, so I jumped at the chance. Since then we have created augmented reality experiences for Disney, Jägermeister, Bic, and several other household names.”
Now, when to your next-gen tattoo.
In order for an AR-powered tattoo to squint right, you need to make sure the digital volatility will work properly with the physical tattoo. What you don’t want is an overly ramified tattoo as the marker as it could make tracking increasingly difficult. You should alimony it semi-small but not too small. For my Thunderkitty Hellcat tattoo, it’s just a tad larger than a golf ball. This allows for just unbearable details to make the tattoo squint superstitious while still working powerfully as a marker.
“One thing to be wary well-nigh with AR is you don’t want the trigger image to be distorted too much, so flatter the better. If it wraps and distorts too much virtually your arm the tracking for the AR will be off,” well-considered Pixelpuncha.
To ensure I got the details and size right, I had several conversations with my tattoo versifier and showed her how the AR content looked when launched. From there, she created several sizes of the stencil used to transfer the tattoo image to my skin and placed them on my arm to see what size worked best; the image needed to remain as unappetizing as possible on my arm without losing details. We then used Eyejack to scan each of them.
I asked Pixelpuncha how he comes up with the designs he creates. He tells me, “That’s top secret! But it’s mostly lanugo to a steady nutrition of cartoons and video games. I moreover love the wow factor of AR revealing something that you can’t see initially. So thinking well-nigh that is usually where I start.”
There is definitely a wow factor with having an AR-powered tattoo. I posted a video of my tattoo on Twitter and since then it has garnered over 138K views. It’s plane made its way onto Reddit with comments like “neat bar trick.”
The tattoo moreover unlocks this spanking-new little jazzy tune, which becomes a big talking point for people who see it and hear it. The weightier part is when people dance.
One thing to alimony in mind when getting an AR tattoo is to make sure the volatility matches up perfectly with the tattoo or at least covers it. This might sound nitpicky, but in my opinion, this little detail can make or unravel the experience.
Try to stave an AR effect that exposes the tattoo marker underneath. For example, let’s say you had an image of a robot running as a tattoo. Ideally, the AR effect, when activated, would layer over the entirety of the physical tattoo. You can moreover segregate an volatility designed to enhance your physical tattoo, such as this one here.
When it comes lanugo to choosing an image, Pixelpuncha, who doesn’t have any tattoos of his own, said, “I’d suggest getting something unique that you really love that works well as an image in its own right, then you can really wrack-up peoples pants off when they see the AR bring it all to life.”
When I talked with my tattoo artist, she suggested I remove the untried preliminaries from the original image, which meant I needed to work with Pixelpuncha to get the AR volatility without the untried background. It wasn’t a nonflexible step, but you may want to alimony that on your radar when thinking of your own.
My final step without getting my tattoo ($125) was to work with Pixelpuncha on the license fee ($350) to have the volatility on the Eyejack app. I did that through email and once the transaction was completed, Pixelpuncha set up everything for me and then sent me the QR code. All I had to do was scan the lawmaking with my phone and that was it.
I’ve been very happy with how people react to Thunderkitty Hellcat when they see it in person, and yes, it’s a unconfined bar trick! If you’d like to work with Pixelpuncha on your own AR-powered tattoo, you can reach out to him here.
Image Credit: Bobby Carlton
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