About Us
A communal Pre-Dinner Augmented reality experience
AppetizeR is creating a unique augmented reality experience centered around shared moments of gathering around a table before a meal.
We invite you to help Salty make a secret soup to help propose to Ms. Pepper, but she can’t know what’s happening! Equal parts Charades and Pictionary, AppetizeR is a social AR dinner party game designed to bring people together before and after the meal. Players work together in AR: one Head Chef describes each ingredient without ever saying its name, while the rest must figure out what goes in the pot!
wearable AR technology
This project is the first at the ETC to explore the Snap Spectacles (AR glasses) as a platform.
Emotional Journey
The experience will facilitate conversations and sharing memories around the table before smoothly transitioning into the meal.
Development Blogs
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Bon Appétit! Week 13 at AppetizeR has been all about tightening things up ahead of the Alumni Showcase. We made some significant structural changes to stabilize our connection system, added some visual flair to the soup results, and reworked our user experience flow to better onboard new players. One of…
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Bon Appétit! This week, the AppetizeR team has been digesting feedback from our recent play-taste-testing sessions — though there are a few pre-meal hurdles worth clearing first. On the development side, one of our programmers ran into significant challenges linking the soup shader to respond dynamically to ingredients being placed…
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Bon Appétit! This week AppetizeR had our hands full of trying to prepare for the egg-citement of play-test day. Our artists not only were polishing up the final models for play-test day we have also swapped over to a more playful soup pot. With the new model came incredible shaders…
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Bon Appétit! Now at the halfway point of the semester, the team is gathering together all of our best work and laying it out on an appetizing platter, like a delicious apple toast. On the tech side, things aren’t quite smooth sailing just yet. The main issue that the programmers…
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Bon Appétit! This week, the team at AppetizeR is settling in and getting more comfortable with Lens Studio, like a sausage wrapped in a doughy blanket (rendered in multiple styles, ranging from abstract to realistic). Hopefully we’re not just being lured into a false sense of comfort before being devoured… Our…
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Bon Appétit! We have finally started treading through an AR garden (salad). Our product is growing thanks to some amazing paper prototypes that pushed our visions to reality. Following the difficulties the programmers were having on the tech side while simultaneously trying to implement prototype ideas and just learn how…
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Bon Appétit! Welcome to the week of ideas being skewered. Here at AppetizeR, we took the feedback from Quarters, had a long hard look at our platform, project requirements, needs, limitations, and enthusiasm, and then tried to find the right place to bite into. The team had this moment where…
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Bon Appétit! This week, our appetizer special is tuna tartare! Though the project is starting to ramp up our appetites, the citrusy sting of Lens Studio is burning us up inside a little bit. The storm of week 3 came in faster than the cold in Pittsburgh. Brainstorming sessions prepared…
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Bon Appétit! This week, our appetizer special is garlic bread! We’ve established the core foundations of our project—the same way garlic bread is the staple appetizer at many restaurants—but we still have so many concepts and directions that we could dip into. Should we go with pesto? Olive oil? Marinara?…
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Bon Appétit! We are team AppetizeR… and this week, our appetizer special is Cherry Tomato Marinade! Our team of five fresh-face cherry tomatoes is coming together and combining our unique tastes to form a delicious dish! Our project is a blend of exploring mixed reality technology and designing a communal,…
