These Free AR Apps Glimpse a Metaverse Future if Artists Were in Charge

ReachYou turns your phone into a portal to receive a "transmission from the future built for the tenderness of the present."
Tribeca Festival
What's happeningThree of the best augmented reality projects from Tribeca Festival are available for anyone -- free, no trip to New York required.
Why it mattersWhatever our metaverse future may be, artists' AR experiences can give you a glimpse of its more thoughtful possibilities.
Augmented reality took a backseat to virtual reality in the pandemic. VR headsets, which block out the real world to immerse you in a virtual one, suddenly commanded new appeal when everything social shut down and we sequestered ourselves at home. But now, AR -- which overlays the real world with digital ornaments -- has regained one prominent stage to show off its cutting edge again: immersive in-person experiences at big film festivals.
One of the latest, Tribeca Festival in New York last month, revived the full-blown, in-person installations of its Immersive curation for the first time in more than two years. Unless you were there, though, you probably missed them. 
But three of Tribeca's best AR art experiments are available now -- free -- for anyone with a phone to experience them. 

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