Trail Explorer by CTRMA vs AR Exhibit

Take a walk like no other… The Trail Explorer by CTRMA app brings imagination to life by letting you explore the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority’s 45SW and 183 Trails through voice narration in both English and Spanish and interactive augmented reality animations. Get ready to open the door to possibility! Trail Explorer by CTRMA provides a captivating and educational experience for all ages. Use this free app to enhance your journey along our trails. Learn about the history, native plants and animals of the Texas Hill Country, and the people, history and culture of Austin’s East Side. On the 45SW Trail, you can watch as prehistoric sea creatures animate in life-size form right before your eyes, witness the majesty of a towering Live Oak Tree as it grows from the ground up or take a deeper look at the caves below the surface in Central Texas. On the 183 Trail, you can watch a Tejano band play a personal concert, unlock a life-size hidden local Austin mural, or enter a portal to the Montopolis Truss Bridge in the late 1930’s. You won’t want to miss this one-of-a-kind trail adventure! Download the app today. Make sure to allow notifications and enable location services to utilize the app’s GPS component for a comprehensive trail experience. Key Features Augmented Reality: Animations bring you up close to unique experiences. Narration: Learn interesting facts and historic information with this narrated guide offered in both English and Spanish. Closed captioning available on the 183 Trail. GPS Guidance: Always know where you are on the trail, and identify nearby augmented reality experiences. Photo and Social Sharing Capability: Want to take a picture of a Mosasaur or a Texas-horned Lizard or journey through a portal to the 1930s? This app offers the ability to capture our jaw-dropping. augmented reality experience with your phone’s camera. Your friends won’t believe their eyes when you share what you’re seeing on this spectacular journey.

Documenting Black History in Augmented Reality (AR) Celebrate BLACK HISTORY all year long with the exciting and innovative learning experience crafted by renowned black artist, Anthony W. Phills. His United States premiere installation of “UNBREAKABLE” is the first Augmented Reality (AR) tour of its kind that immerses the user into an African’s journey to antebellum America. Unbreakable AR Exhibit comes to you with two AR experiences; (1) Statue: Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis in app and (2) Tour: Enslaved Person with Slaveholder on location in selected cities in the United States and around the world. Statue: Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis Anthony brings us a beautiful 3D AR likeness of Oluale Kossola, also known as Cudjo Lewis, who was the second to last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the United States. The Lewis’ statue comes with a short ninety second audio history of his life when you walk within 1.5 ft of the AR replica. Tour: Enslaved Person with Slaveholder Unbreakable second AR experience allows you to explore the historical moment from a new perspective and depth. Your AR experience starts in the following Cities: New Your City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Washington DC, Chicago, New Orleans, Miami, Dallas, Kentucky, and Alabama. After selecting your city, users can walk around the statues of an Enslaved person and Slaveholder in a way few have been able to do before with Anthony’s rich visual and immersive audio integrated. Help Make a Difference I am seeking your support to help me continue the IMMERSIVE LEARNING experience with the building of the "Clotilda Slave Ship" my next exhibition. Without a doubt, living history experiences have a much more powerful impact on younger people than just reading stories in a book. When completed, the "Clotilda Slave Ship" exhibition AR experience will enable the audience to see exactly what it was like to be aboard one of these ships and understand the experience from a more emphatic place. We hope that this exhibition will help the target audience understand the resiliency of their ancestors and also understand why it is important to take a position on human rights issues of today. We plan to make this project a reoccurring event and not a “one-off” event. We want to be able to bring this to kids in the inner cities and around the world. Our goal is to make it available for download so that everyone can experience African and Black History right in front of them for FREE, and therefore we are seeking the support of well-meaning members of our community and the general public who sees truly the importance of this IMMERSIVE LEARNING experience.