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Appy Hour

Test drive the latest mobile app creations and share feedback with the independent developers who created them.

Below is a listing of the work presented at the SIGGRAPH 2020 Appy Hour. To explore the content in detail, please review the program’s listing on the ACM Digital Library.

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There really is an app for everything.

Discover anything and everything a mobile device can do at Appy Hour. Whether it’s augmented reality, high-end mobile gaming, computational photography, image manipulation, location-based gaming, content creation, you’ll find it here.

Appy Hour celebrates innovation, creativity, and know-how, and attendees can interact with the developers and experience the next generation of mobile media in a fun atmosphere.


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Wednesday, 26 August 2020 3pm-3:08pm Simulive 3
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Digital Twin Applications Within Extended Reality
SessionAppy Hour
Contributors
Jade Jiang
Michael Tobia
Robert Lawther
Dominic Branchaud
Tomasz Bednarz
Event Type
Appy Hour
Interest Areas
Research & Education
TimeWednesday, 26 August 20203pm - 3:08pm PST
LocationSimulive 3
DescriptionThis is a digital twin (DT) of the Expanded Perception and Interaction Centre (EPICentre), using extended reality to visualize IoT sensor data. An immersive application was developed for multiple platforms, allowing users to interact with the DT model through virtual reality and extended reality.
Contributors
Jade Jiang
CSIRO Data61
Michael Tobia
CSIRO Data61
Robert Lawther
University of New South Wales
Dominic Branchaud
University of New South Wales
Tomasz Bednarz
University of New South Wales
CSIRO Data61
Wednesday, 26 August 2020 3:08pm-3:16pm Simulive 3
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DrawmaticAR
SessionAppy Hour
Contributor
Yosun Chang
Event Type
Appy Hour
Interest Areas
Research & Education
TimeWednesday, 26 August 20203:08pm - 3:16pm PST
LocationSimulive 3
DescriptionDrawmaticAR is an AI-AR app capable of creating interactive 3D animated experiences from story words written in the designated section on an AR marker (Magic Paper).
Contributor
Yosun Chang
AReality3D
Permute.xyz
Wednesday, 26 August 2020 3:16pm-3:24pm Simulive 3
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Explore NASA: An Augmented Reality Tour of the NASA Glenn Research Center
SessionAppy Hour
Contributor
Eric Mindek
Event Type
Appy Hour
Interest Areas
Research & Education
TimeWednesday, 26 August 20203:16pm - 3:24pm PST
LocationSimulive 3
DescriptionGRC Explore is a virtual tour application for the iPad that is being developed for the NASA Glenn Research Center. The app is visually composed of still images, 360-degree panoramic images, videos, and augmented reality.
Contributor
Eric Mindek
NASA/ATS
Wednesday, 26 August 2020 3:24pm-3:32pm Simulive 3
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Graphite: Interactive Photo-to-drawing Stylization on Mobile Devices
SessionAppy Hour
Contributors
Amir Semmo
Sebastian Pasewaldt
Event Type
Appy Hour
Interest Areas
Research & Education
TimeWednesday, 26 August 20203:24pm - 3:32pm PST
LocationSimulive 3
DescriptionGraphite is a mobile app that enables users to transform photos into drawings and illustrations in real-time. Through a stylization pipeline, users can simulate drawing effects — like blending, smudging, and line overshoot — and replicate the looks of different popular artistic media, including pencil, pen and ink, and pastel.
Contributors
Amir Semmo
Digital Masterpieces GmbH
Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering, University of Potsdam
Sebastian Pasewaldt
Digital Masterpieces GmbH
Wednesday, 26 August 2020 3:32pm-3:40pm Simulive 3
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Math Chaos Patterns
SessionAppy Hour
Contributor
Dmitry Belov
Event Type
Appy Hour
Interest Areas
Research & Education
TimeWednesday, 26 August 20203:32pm - 3:40pm PST
LocationSimulive 3
DescriptionImagine a flock of live brushes on your canvas. You set their initial locations and directions of walk, mark a speed limit, tell them how to behave with each other, choose a palette for each step, and, finally, let them walk over your canvas. What will you see?
Contributor
Dmitry Belov
D1B LLC
Wednesday, 26 August 2020 3:40pm-3:48pm Simulive 3
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PaperMATA: Habitats for AI
SessionAppy Hour
Contributor
Yosun Chang
Event Type
Appy Hour
Interest Areas
Research & Education
TimeWednesday, 26 August 20203:40pm - 3:48pm PST
LocationSimulive 3
DescriptionPaperMATA is a postcard-medium, augmented reality, 3D content creation platform inspired by paper automata - inhabited by tiny AI homunculi. Beyond just UV-mapping, objects drawn on paper are recognized by AI and assigned characteristics of identified objects, such as window, door, etc., for tiny AI homunculi to interact with.
Contributor
Yosun Chang
AReality3D
Permute.xyz
Wednesday, 26 August 2020 3:48pm-3:56pm Simulive 3
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Step Into the Bubble
SessionAppy Hour
Contributors
Stephen Lane
Matt Boyd-Surka
Yaoyi Bai
Event Type
Appy Hour
Interest Areas
Research & Education
TimeWednesday, 26 August 20203:48pm - 3:56pm PST
LocationSimulive 3
DescriptionThe Bubble app enables an augmented reality (AR) user interface to be created as a hierarchy of interactable nested bubbles. It allows users to easily navigate, explore, and interact with content and other information (text, images, videos, 3D models) in a manner naturally suited to mixed reality and AR worlds.
Contributors
Stephen Lane
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
Matt Boyd-Surka
University of Pennsylvania
Yaoyi Bai
University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, 26 August 2020 3:56pm-4:56pm Simulive 3
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Q&A: Appy Hour
SessionAppy Hour
Event Type
Appy Hour
Interest Areas
Research & Education
TimeWednesday, 26 August 20203:56pm - 4:56pm PST
LocationSimulive 3
DescriptionModerated virtual Q&A session, featuring questions captured during the Appy Hour session, Wednesday, 26 August, 3 pm.