
“Block”
AR + Jewelry Design
Independent Project, 2020 Fall
Tools: Blender, SolidWorks, Unity
“Block" is a wearable device that combining Jewelry with Augmented Reality (AR). The user/audience would experience the device through both physical and virtual aspects. The main goals of this project are to discover a new way of communication, along with creating a piece of decorative high-tech jewelry.
BACKGROUND
Mask
During Covid-19, people start to wear masks during daily time.
Mask, therefore becoming the protection of human beings. While in the same time, masks also limit the communication around people. Facial expressions are blocked by the mask.
Development of communication
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_communication#Early_scripts
Cave Painting
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life.
Alphabets
The first pure alphabets (properly, "abjads", mapping single symbols to single phonemes, but not necessarily each phoneme to a symbol) emerged around 2000 BC in Ancient Egypt, but by then alphabetic principles had already been incorporated into Egyptian hieroglyphs for a millennium.
Telecommunication
1949 – Claude Elwood Shannon, the "father of information theory", mathematically proves the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem.
IDEATION
Discover new idea of communication, combining with the hit technology.
A fun decorative design.
How people relate to each other? how people connect with themselves?
MOODBOARD
CONCEPTS & DEVELOPMENT
Wearable (Jewelry) Part
Sound wave
Sound is a carrier of language and is also one of the most direct ways of communication. The sound wave is the visualization of sound, and through my choice of sound waves as the inspiration for the design, the sound is expressed and presented in another way.
Shape Development
Sketch sound waves and develop my design idea
Relation with Body
Mask shaped:
"Block" the traditional way of talking, offering a new solution
Fabric liked material (picture part):
The recognition picture fits in front of the mouth. Air hitting the textile simulates the wave while the user talking
Virtual (Augmented Reality) Part
"Head And Skkull" by parsanouri is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
AR form
Still display:
focus on beauty performances, show personality
Tail:
Track the movement of the user, focus on the path
Trail:
More customizable, the user could even write words or draw through this.
show every movement of the user.
Movement & AR display
See through screen
Virtual trail will show along with the users’ movement
Able to write or draw
MAKING PROCESS
AR display demo
FINAL OUTCOME
"Head Sketch" by Alejandro.Planas is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.