“The UK’s largest immersive storytelling experience” featuring 16 AR walking trails across multiple towns. A collaboration between StoryFutures, BFI, filmmaker David Olusoga, BBC, and Niantic, enabling public engagement with local history through location-based augmented reality.
Rolling through towns across the nation during the scorching summer of 2022, the UK’s largest immersive storytelling experience took over public libraries to tell local stories told by local communities through a series of AR walking trails. From Omagh to Dundee, Swansea to Slough, Lambeth to Lewisham, the public were invited to step through time and space to experience history where it happened. Building on our longstanding vision to bring Augmented Reality to wider audiences and reanimate public spaces through immersive storytelling, the mammoth project resulted in the building of 16 unique AR Trails and 15 AR Cinemas.