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By Lee Hayes
WWF Forests
WWF Forests
WWF Forests is an AR app that allows users to explore the forest within their own home. The app was developed on behalf of WWF by Assembler. The goal of the app is to connect people in a meaningful way to educate them on ecology. In the app, animals react to the user's presence as though they are actually there in nature.
The app is available on the app store for iPhone. The app is on version 1.01, and was last updated in 2020. It also has a rating of 5 stars with 20 reviews.
Features:
-Guided tours
-Full immersion or table-top modes
-interactive elements on both iphone and ipad
-Forrest facts
-Photo and video capture
WWF Free Rivers
WWF Free Rivers
WWF Free Rivers is an augmented reality experience that brings landscapes into a user's home. Through this experience, users are taught how river's flow impacts the lives of nearby people and wildlife. Users can also simulate cutting off water through dams, to see how it impacts the surrounding environment.
Free Rivers is also available on the app store for iPhone. The latest version is 1.3.1, and was last updated in 2019. The rating was a 3.6 out of 5 stars. Many reviews report bugs. One bug is that the tabletop view doesn't properly anchor to a real-world object, so if you move the model moves as well. Other complaints are about there not being any agency. Rather than simulating your own changes to the environment, you go through a set storyline. Overall, the idea was well received, but the execution from bugs to how users actually interact with the scene needs some polish.
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