Portal(8K Texture)

Portal AR Experience:-

Research project where I bypassed the 1k texture quality limit in spark AR and successfully rendered 8k quality images without getting compressed by sparkAR. And at the same time kept it below 4mb. And built famous AR portal experience within spark AR

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Challenge faced :
The spark AR compression system automatically compresses images above 1k resolution. So you cannot render high quality images (8K images) inside spark AR.

So to build an immersive high quality portal experience I have to solve the above challenge. So I started doing research for this problem.

I resolved the texture compression problem by splitting 360 sphere into 32 pieces horizontally and vertically and remapped its UV to map to the individual texture. And splitted 8k quality 360 images into 32 pieces (less than 1k resolution per each image) and remapped to those splitted parts. So At the end all those 32 parts of sphere and images combined together to give 8k high resolution portal experience.

And built out AR portal experience in sparkAR. Now users can step into galaxy (8K resolution high resolution galaxy 360 image) via this portal.

Links:-
FB:- https://www.facebook.com/fbcameraeffects/tryit/1473135533073367/
IG:- https://www.instagram.com/ar/1473135533073367/