1908 Race Riot AR vs AgentPL AR App

1908 Race Riot AR is an Augmented Reality-based mobile app that presents the 1908 Springfield, Illinois Race Riot, a horrific episode of racial violence perpetrated against African Americans in the Capitol of the State of Illinois which led to the founding of the NAACP. The app provides visitors with the ability to follow a self-guided tour of downtown Springfield, Illinois that presents the event and how it unfolded over three days. The app is centered around a GPS-based map that guides visitors to nine numbered AR stop locations. Each AR stop represents a place of significance where users are able to view animated AR recreations of events that took place. These animated AR recreations are viewed as overlays on the real present day landscape. The app was made possible by the US National Park Service’s Abraham Lincoln Home and the organization Looking for Lincoln. This material was produced with assistance from the African American Civil Rights, administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.

Agent PL is an application is an application with Augmented Reality elements, which through gamification is supposed to reveal to the user the history of Poles in Morocco. It is an application with historical content commemorating and popularizing the figure of Mieczyslaw Slowikowski, who led the Polish intelligence network in North Africa during World War II. His actions significantly contributed to the victory of the Allied forces during Operation Torch. The app aims to restore the memory of Mieczyslaw Slowikowski by presenting historical scenes in "augmented reality" in real locations where key intelligence operations for Torch took place in North Africa. In the app, the user takes on the role of an Intelligence Agent in1940. Similar to the famous Pokémon, he searches for information and intelligence tasks in real locations in Morocco. The app tracks the user's location, and when he or she is in one of 100 points marked as historically important sends specific information, directs to more places, sends intelligence tasks, quizzes and historical scenes. The agent first receives instructions from the Intelligence Headquarters, but also tasks, reports and sends messages to the base Intelligence tasks depend on the location. In addition, in 35 points in Morocco, in historical restaurants, hotels, or historically important points, we have placed postcards with qr codes which, when scanned, show hidden information about our "game." This refers to the encryption and decryption of information during World War II by intelligence agents. The application does not require logging in, does not collect personal data, and does not contain ads or payments. Requests to grant access to the location are only needed to follow the historical facts hidden in Augmented Reality in real places in Morocco. Access to the camera is only required to scan and decode QR codes. Agent PL is an application with historical content commemorating and popularizing the figure of Mieczyslaw Slowikowski, who headed the Polish intelligence network in North Africa during World War II. His actions significantly contributed to the victory of the Allied forces during Operation Torch. The app aims to restore the memory of Mieczyslaw Slowikowski by presenting historical scenes in "augmented reality" in real locations where key intelligence operations for Torch took place in North Africa. In the app, the user takes on the role of an Intelligence Agent in1940. Similar to the famous Pokémon, he searches for information and intelligence tasks in real locations in Morocco. The app tracks the user's location, and when he or she is in one of 100 points marked as historically important sends specific information, directs to more places, sends intelligence tasks, quizzes and historical scenes. In addition, at 35 points in Morocco, in historic restaurants, hotels, or historically important points, we have placed postcards with qr codes which, when scanned, show hidden information about our "game." This refers to the encryption and decryption of information during World War II by intelligence agents. The application does not require logging in, does not collect personal data, and does not contain ads or payments. Requests to grant access to the location are only needed to follow the historical facts hidden in Augmented Reality in real places in Morocco. Access to the camera is only required to scan and decode QR codes.