Kaleidoscopic Home AR ☺️💫👀

How can playscapes within our homes shape our health and well-being?

Everyday Experiments is an ongoing series of digital experiments by SPACE10 and IKEA, exploring ways to enhance our interactions with space and improve our everyday lives. The result is an array of clever ideas, radical proposals and exciting fictional prototypes, which each challenge the role of technology in the home.

For Everyday Experiments, Tin&Ed created Kaleidoscopic Home, an Augmented Reality (AR) application that could help improve your physical and mental well-being. The app turns your home into an extraordinary playground filled with an ever-changing array of surprising sculptural forms. Using AR and object recognition, generative forms would emerge from the surface of your tables and chairs, floors, walls and ceilings. Through playful new configurations, the digital additions would continuously transform your space and create unexpected pathways through familiar surroundings.

AR has the potential to intelligently generate experiences that are fully adaptive to different ages and abilities. This means it could sync with a health app to understand your physical limits and needs. It could also evolve to recognise not only spatial context but time of day, and what level of liveliness you prefer at that hour.