

Corals Life AR
Built as part of Googles 2023 geospatial challange, Corals AR Life was an attempt to bring coral reefs to land locked locations. By using Google Geospatial Creator and Unity I was able to place an AR reef in San Bernardino CA, Chicago IL, and Honolulu HI all from the desert town of Yucaipa. Users when they went to a location were able walk through larger than life coral reefs and interact with fish to learn about coral bleeching. The end goal was to raise awareness and create empathy for these stressed eco systems through proximity.
ANDREW TOWL
Concept, modeling, graphics, google geospatial integration, C#, Unity development android build and onsite testing
Andy Cochrane
Onsite testing
Jordan Campbell
Onsite testing
Tom Shannon
Onsite testing. IOS Build
Leave Trace
Music
Our hope is that this project can be expanded and used as a teaching tool in areas where people may not ever have the chance of experience a reef first hand.
TEAM
Inspired by the plight of corals and their remotness and inexcessability we wanted to bring the reefs to the people. Google's Geospatial Challange was a great opertunity to give this a try.
From the desert of California I was able to model animate and place coral reefs at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, The Waikiki Aquarium in Honolulu, and the San Bernardino County Museum.
Along with being able to tap and meet individual fish users can walk thorugh the larger than life reefs, feed the fish, and when ready see what happens to the reef when the corals are stressed to their limit.
Experience a coral reef on land and learn first hand the harms of coral bleaching.