{"id":520163,"date":"2025-10-22T17:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520163\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:40:22","slug":"clever-use-of-augmented-reality-tracing-virtual-art-to-quickly-create-murals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520163\/","title":{"rendered":"Clever Use of Augmented Reality: Tracing Virtual Art to Quickly Create Murals"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The other day I saw something funny: I drove past a house with a long privacy fence that had been painted white, and across it, someone had spraypainted “Mural-ideas@gmail.com” (or something similar.) I found it funny because if the e-mail address owner was not the house owner, they were essentially forcing the house owner to re-paint the fence; and if the e-mail owner and the house owner was the same person, it means they couldn’t even come up with a good idea for a mural to advertise their own services, just their scrawled e-mail address.<\/p>\n

In any case, as we’ve seen with Hanif Panni’s clever work<\/a>, painting murals takes a great deal of skill. And I’m not saying the artist below isn’t skilled, but she has come up with a techno hack that makes her job a good deal easier. Said artist<\/a>, who works as a mural painter in the Mexican city of Nava, uses an AR headset to virtually overlay her drawings on the surfaces she’s working.<\/p>\n

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Then all she has to do is trace it.<\/p>\n

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The end product, by the way\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026is glow-in-the-dark:<\/p>\n

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The artist says she’s using a Meta Quest 3.<\/p>\n

This reminds me of Foundation Year exercises at art school, where they had us trace drawings by old masters. Perhaps in the coming years, those exercises will be done by a bunch of kids wearing goggles. <\/p>\n


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