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SILVR

A phone app that knows what you're watching and opens AR and VR content around it.

Eddie OffermannCreative direction, technology selection, software architecture, team management

Role
Creative direction, technology selection, software architecture, team management
Areas
XR, Apps, Computer Vision
A hand holding a phone that plays a film scene, next to a second phone on a table whose screen says it is listening to the environment and discovering content.

SILVR is a mixed reality mobile app I led at Mirada for studio partners: a content discovery and distribution platform, built from the ground up for virtual and augmented reality. It automatically detects what's playing on the main screen and responds with matching second-screen content, augmented reality and virtual reality experiences, so the phone becomes a window into the show you're already watching.

Audio sync is one aspect of that multidimensional AR content platform. The app listens to its environment, recognizes the content, and keeps its own experience in step with it.

A five-step flow: the main screen plays a show, the SILVR app listens to its environment, it detects the content automatically, audio sync keeps it in step, and it delivers matching second-screen, AR and VR content.
SILVR detects what's on the main screen and keeps its own content in sync with it.

I led creative direction, technology selection and software architecture, and managed the team.

One of my immersive projects at Mirada.

  • Play video: Silvr - From Mirada Studios
    A content discovery and distribution platform, built from the ground up for virtual and augmented reality.
  • Play video: Silvr - Audio Sync
    Audio sync: the app listens to what's playing and lines its content up with it.

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