Coiled cables at head height
Look again.
You could do this with your eyes shut.
Eleven things you had walked past.
Press and hold, or tap to keep them on.
TfL colleague safety · Working prototype
Point your phone at a corridor you know too well. Then put the goggles on.
Runs in the browser. No app, no install. The camera feed is processed on your device and never leaves it.
Best on a phone. If the camera is blocked, the demo scene works with no permissions at all.
The camera isn't available here.
This happens when the page is embedded, when the browser has blocked the permission, or when the page is not served over HTTPS.
- Open this page in its own tab rather than inside a preview panel, then allow the camera when asked.
- Check the browser's site permissions if you have blocked it before.
- Or use the demo scene, which needs no permissions and shows the same reveal.
What is real here, and what isn't.
A prototype built to be shown in a room, not a finished product. Worth being straight about which parts are the idea and which are stand-ins.
- Real: it runs in a mobile browser with no app, opens from a QR code, and processes everything on the device. Nothing is uploaded.
- Real: the coiled cables are a photographed hazard, cut out and dropped into your own environment. That is the mechanic.
- Stand-ins: the wet floor and the suspended bucket are illustrations holding the slot until we photograph the real thing. Each hazard is a single cut-out image, so adding one is a five-minute job.
- Red / cyan 3D is kept because it is the effect you get free with real anaglyph glasses, and it is worth playing with as a physical piece. The print reveal itself is a decoder, not anaglyph – see the production note.
- Next: the shipped version most likely recognises the printed poster and reveals that poster's own art-directed hazard layer, which needs no glasses at all.
Type is set in a stand-in for Johnston100.