Client
audibene GmbH / hear.com LLC
Completion Date
Mar 30th, 2023
User goals: what kind of experience do we want to give to the users with this feature? what do we want them to learn with it?
Problem 1: Introduce the AR feature to the user.
Problem 2: Assisting user in space locating a surface.
Problem 3: assisting user to place a virtual 3D object onto a detected surface.
Feature Onboarding: AR environment and gestures, Time machine and Inspect Mode.
Problem: assist the user to physically engage with a virtual 3D object. - Examples of Specs and Color interactions features that allow the user to manipulate 3D object represented by lower dimensional gestures.
*Featured in the official hear.com / audibene apps | Concept by: Marcel Vesga
Overview
The goal of this feature was to educate potential hearing aid customers about the stigmas and misconceptions about hearing aids. Many (if not most) first time hearing aid users have never seen or held a modern hearing aid in the hands, but many have stuck in their minds, the idea that hearing aids are still big, bulky and ugly pieces of technology that will expose their “disability” to others. Nothing far from the reality of modern hearing aids. Through the use of Augmented Reality, official hear.com / audibene app users that have never held a hearing aid in their hands, now the chance to experience the evolution of hearing aids through a Time Machine that will guide them through the advancements and improvements of this technology in last 3 decades, and also learning how small and convenient modern hearing aids are and what they are capable of today.
Key achievements:
• Design Interfaces for native Augmented Reality applications in both Android and iOS systems (ARCore and ARKit).
• Design new gestures and interaction paradigms to interact in VR and AR environments.
