Refract Studio

The results are IN! 🥳 Congrats to our six inspiring and talented #LensFest2023 Awards winners: Inês Lúcio, @ParamountPics and @PrettyBigMnstr, @WeAreTactical, @HologoWorld, @CreationsDb, and @Refract_Studio!

Our Founder Lauren Cason and Multi-Media Artist Ehren Kee Natay got together on the 80 Level podcast to talk about the future and present of XR and AR. Lauren and Ehren worked together on Ojos Diferentes, check it out! ow.ly/LIrK50OWjKm #AR #design #XR #art

Musical space blobs in the Santa Fe Railyard? 👀 Currents New Media is an annual Art and Technology festival located in Santa Fe New Mexico. To promote the festival in 2022, Refract was commissioned to build five interactive AR sculptures around the Santa Fe Railyards

Here's a little behind the scenes on a project with the Luk'ae Tsa'taas comic collective in Alaska. This @unity prototype pulls @googlemaps data on the Matenuska glacier. #unity #art #glacier #alaska #ar #xr

Are you ready for your next road trip 🚗? We spent a day using @unity to make a @DigitalTwin of a car and imagine how XR and AI could help prepare you for a long journey. What do you think? Would you use it? Should spatial computing be a part of vehicles? #cars #ar #xr

The first from the New Mexico Road Sign series for @Spectacles in Silver City allows you to see an immersive portrait of Anita Scott Coleman. A performance of one of her poems by ABQ Poet @CoachEbonySaid gives an intimate experience of this incredible woman and her work.

The last piece in the #Boston @Spectacles series - Yusuf Omar and our founder Lauren Cason had the chance to Interview Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially register and run the Boston Marathon in 1967. Hear her tell you the story of that day in her own words. #AR

To celebrate the opening of the @obsidiopolis room @MeowWolf, we helped build an AR church fan that transports you to Obsidiopolis. A @SparkARStudio effect opens a portal in the fan, letting you see Fantastrophe in space! We love merging physical and digital experiences.

We'll be sharing more about each site and artist over the week, learnings from building the project, and more. Can’t wait to share it with you all! #NM #AR #XR #OjosDiferentes #RefractStudio #Snap #LensStudio

" to reflect on the historical context which has led to present day conditions and recognize that people’s lived experiences are not always found in textbooks, but are also key to this understanding.”

Ojos Diferentes. 8 New Mexican Indigenous, Norteño, and Chicana Artists reinterpreted contested monuments, tourist sites, and hidden historic locations throughout Santa Fe using Snap AR.