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ARTwain press kit.
An app for AR glasses, made by an artist. To our knowledge, ARTwain is the first app made by an artist for display AR glasses.
Fact sheet
- Name
- ARTwain (always written with "ART" in capitals)
- What
- An app for display AR glasses: stereoscopic artworks and real-time 3D experiences, one picture for each eye. The phone is the controller.
- Artist
- Charlie Caper
- Developer
- Caper Productions AB, Stockholm, Sweden
- Requires
- Display AR glasses with a full side-by-side 3D mode (XREAL first; VITURE, RayNeo and Rokid planned) and an iPhone 15 or newer. Nothing plays on the phone screen.
- Platforms
- iPhone first. Android later.
- Price
- Free to download, with short previews. One in-app purchase unlocks the full collection.
- Status
- In development. Release date to be announced.
- First experience
- A Rubik's cube that floats in mid-air, turned with your phone.
- First artwork
- A stereoscopic music video, premiering soon.
- Website
- artwain.com
About ARTwain
Short (50 words)
ARTwain is an app for AR glasses, made by an artist. It shows Charlie Caper's stereoscopic artworks and real-time 3D experiences in display AR glasses like XREAL, one full picture for each eye, with the phone as the controller. To our knowledge, it is the first app made by an artist for display AR glasses.
Long (200 words)
ARTwain is an app for AR glasses, made by Swedish magician, artist and creative technologist Charlie Caper. To our knowledge, it is the first app made by an artist for display AR glasses.
Display AR glasses, such as XREAL, plug into a phone and show a large private screen in front of your eyes. Most of them have a 3D mode, where each eye gets its own picture. ARTwain is built for that mode. Its artworks are made for two eyes from the first frame: full side-by-side 3D, 3840 by 1080 pixels, so each eye gets a full 1920-pixel picture and the art has real depth in the room.
Next to the artworks, ARTwain hosts real-time 3D experiences that you steer from your phone. The first is a Rubik's cube floating in mid-air: touch the phone to point, press firmly to grab, and drag to turn.
The name hides three ideas: AR inside ART, "twain" as an old word for two (two eyes, two pictures), and Charles's Wain, the old name for the Big Dipper, which is the logo, drawn in red and cyan like an old 3D picture.
ARTwain needs AR glasses and an iPhone 15 or newer. Android comes later.
About Charlie Caper
Short
Charlie Caper is a Stockholm-based magician, artist and creative technologist who combines sleight of hand with robotics and artificial intelligence. He won Sweden's Got Talent (Talang) in 2009 and the Mandrake d'Or in 2011, has performed in 76 countries, and was Chief Creative Officer at Furhat Robotics.
Long
Charlie Caper is a magician, artist and creative technologist from Sweden, based in Stockholm. He started out building viral games for films such as Shrek 2 and Van Helsing, then turned to magic and has toured since 2004, performing in 76 countries in 7 languages. In 2009 he won Talang, the Swedish Got Talent, and a silver medal at the World Championships of Magic (FISM) in Beijing. In 2011 he received the Mandrake d'Or.
His theatre shows, among them Robotricks and The Future, mix magic with robots he builds himself, and have won Best Magic at Adelaide Fringe and Best Cabaret at Fringeworld several times. That work led him to the Swedish social robotics company Furhat Robotics, where he was Chief Creative Officer.
Charlie also makes art. He has created interactive high-tech artworks for Elements, a space in Stockholm, and was part of the team behind Elythia, a giant artwork at Burning Man. He has spoken about AI and robotics at Web Summit and TEDx Stockholm. ARTwain brings his work into AR glasses.
Images and logo
Free to use for articles about ARTwain. Please credit "ARTwain / Caper Productions AB".
More photos of Charlie: charliecaper.com/press
Contact
Interviews, review codes, early access and demos in the glasses: [email protected]