HP Reveal Manual: How to Make/See an Aura (Augmented Reality Object) Author: “The Aura of My City" Project Revision: Ana Maria Ramalho

HP Reveal

Manual How to make/see an aura (augmented reality object)

The aura of my city - February 2019

The Aura of my city – 2019

Title: HP Reveal Manual: how to make/see an aura (augmented reality object) Author: “The aura of my city" project Revision: Ana Maria Ramalho

Version 1: February 2019

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Adapted from: SEVILLA, Alegria Blázquez, Manual HP Reveal (Aurasma), Universidad Politécnica, Madrid, May 2018

Contents

1. Getting started with HP Reveal Studio ...... 4 1.1. Register a new account ...... 4 1.2. Enter HP Reveal with a created account ...... 5 1.3. Description of HP Reveal menus ...... 6 2. Create Auras ...... 8 3. See Auras ...... 17 4. Create Auras with mobile device (Android) ...... 19 5. Create Auras with mobile device i0S ...... 24 6. Summary ...... 32

HP REVEAL STUDIO AND HP REVEAL

HP Reveal Studio and HP Reveal are the same tool. The first one refers to its web version and the second to the mobile option. In both cases its main purpose is to enable the user to create Augmented Reality objects.

Throughout this manual all the steps to be followed will be described in detail for a correct use of HP Reveal Studio and HP Reveal.

Until December 2017 HP Reveal Studio and HP Reveal were called Aurasma Studio and Aurasma.

In a very simple way you can get great results becoming the user in an experienced Augmented Reality creator. Their logos are the following:

The knowledge and identification of logos is essential to be able to inform where the additional information as augmented reality is located and that you can get it with HP Reveal app.

1. Getting started with HP Reveal Studio 1.1. Register a new account

To start using HP Reveal Studio it is necessary to enter the web through the address https://studio.hpreveal.com and register. To do this, click on "Log in to HP Reveal Studio”

In this screen you have to fill in the fields requested in the option "CREATE ACCOUNT ":

"Create an account"

Email Address, this field has to be completed with an electronic mail address. It is important to remember the mail address of the creation of the account since it can be requested to access. Username: It is necessary to create a username that later will be requested in new accesses. Password: Keyword that is requested in new accesses. Confirm Password: The same word must be written as confirmation of the previous password.

Once you have all the complete data just click on "Create account". If instead of starting to use HP Reveal Studio through the PC you access the mobile app and registration is done through your App, you just have to click "Already have an account" and complete the "Username" and "Password" which has been created in the App.

After registering with HP Reveal Studio or HP Reveal, it´s very important that you enter your email and verify the account at through the email that is sent by the application's managers. If this process isn’t performed, the "Auras" can’t be displayed. The result of overlapping additional information (video, audio, image or 3D model) to an image is called “Aura”.

1.2. Enter HP Reveal with a created account

Once the registration is made and authenticated through email, enter HP Reveal Studio, click again on "Log in to HP Reveal Studio" and click on "Sign in":

Insert "Username" and "Password" and Click on "Log in" to access HP Reveal Studio

1.3. Description of HP Reveal menus

To explore the different sections on the top right you just have to click on each of them:

My Account: Corresponds to the data of the account created by the user and allows you to modify the name of the user, password, email, insert an image, read the terms of the service, enable features, modify preferences and share the campaigns, "Private auras". Help: Videos about the use of HP Reveal Studio appear as a help to the user, as well as the possibility of participating in the "Community of HP Reveal Studio, where you can debate on issues of the application. Log Out: Corresponds to the closing of the user's session.

In the central part there are three options, "Discover", "Assets" and "My Auras". With the first option, "Discover", you go back to the central start menu where you have all the Auras created and shared by users. "Assets", corresponds to those markers that are used as information triggers and finally "My Auras" is the place where the created auras are kept and where the new ones are created.

Discover, in this section, in addition to finding the auras of the users, you can through the next section (upper right area) search for users "Search" or hashtag assigned to the auras, as well as through the arrow icon "update the auras that appear by default”.

Assets, if no aura had been made, pressing this option the central part of the page will be in blank. If any aura was created, in this section the "activators" of the information will appear, normally it’s the selected images.

2. Create Auras

"My Auras", when pressing this option, the following screen will be displayed:

This space is where you start creating the Aura, clicking "Create New Aura" accesses the option "Click to Upload Trigger lmage" to select the trigger information or as it is called in HP Reveal Studio "Trigger image" that is hosted on the PC from which HP Reveal Studio is being accessed. To access the "Trigger lmage" or activator of the information that was used for a previous Aura you click on "Click to Select Existing"

If you access an image of the PC you must complete the following fields: Name: It is necessary to put a name to the "Trigger image" or trigger information.

Folder, My Triggers: Allows creating folders to store the "Trigger images". So, it is only necessary to unfold the folder and select the "Create New Folder" option which will access a blank box to complete with the name of the folder "Enter new folder name ", once filled, you just have to click" OK ".

Coordinates: If this option is selected and the coordinates of the "Trigger image" were filled, the aura will only be activated in the position selected by the inserted coordinates.

Trigger image: To choose the image of the PC, click on "Browse", if you choose an image stored in Dropbox, you have to press "From Dropbox".

Description: Used to make a description of the "Trigger image" is not mandatory but recommended.

Once data have been completed you have to select "Save" to save the chosen trigger image. If instead of searching and selecting an activator of the information of the PC, you choose one already used in previous occasions you access to the next screen and with just a click on "Click to Select Existing" and choose one, you can continue in the creation of Aura.

After clicking on "Save" you access the image with a menu that allows you to edit the image, "Trigger":

Select: Allows you to select all the actions that are performed in the image. Delete: It facilitates to erase all the actions that are carried out in the image once selected the modifications. Mask: Used to select only a part of the image as a rectangle, polygon or ellipse and even make the image more opaque. To modify the "Mask" it is done "Select" on it or "Delete." Zoom ln: For the increase of the "Trigger" image. Zoom Out: For the decrease of the "Trigger" image.

Fit: Indicates the zoom percentage.

Change: Facilitates the change or replacement of the "Trigger" image.

Once all the necessary modifications have been made to the "Trigger", proceed to Click on "Next" (upper right area) and access the possibility of including the layer "Overlay" of information that you want to associate with the "Trigger":

As in the case of the "Trigger", you can choose an existing overlay "Click to Select Existing" or a new one chosen "Click Upload Overlay".

You can upload or choose image files, audio, video or 3D models.

When clicking on the "Click Upload Overlay" option, the following fields appear: Name: This field has to be completed with the name you want to give to the overlay. Folder: By clicking on the "My Overlays" folder you can create all the folders desired to store the overlays that are generated. You have to click on "Create New Folder "and include in the" Enter new folder name" box the name to designate the folder of the overlays, finally press "OK". Browse: This option is to explore on the computer the file that wants to be included as overlay. Description: It is optional but it is convenient to complete this section. Corresponds to the description of the overlay. Loop Animation: Pressing this option indicates that the video or 3D model selected is displayed in a loop. If this option is not pressed, the video or the 3D model selected will stop after the first viewing.

Once the options chosen to save the overlay are completed and selected, click "Save" and the following screen appears:

The trigger and the overlay are visible together and on the right and bottom we find the different options that the overlay allows.

The option "Update Change" allows to upload another overlay. The first of the squares on the left corresponds to a preview of the chosen and previously selected overlay.

By clicking on the "eye" option and by closing it, you remove the overlay from the preview on the left. If on the other hand you left it open, you can view the overlay superimposed on the trigger during the edition.

Clicking on the "X" eliminates the overlay.

The last square on the right corresponds to the choice of color of the contour in which the overlay is framed and you can choose between the following colors:

The options to mark or unmark "Initially hidden", "Fade in" and "Hide on screenshot/video" are relative to the hidden or progressive entry respectively of the overlay(s), very interesting options when you include several layers of augmented reality.

But there is also the possibility of adding more actions: "Add Actions":

When Overlay is tapped: Overlay is activated when doing one click When Overlay is double-tapped: The overlay is activated by double clicking. After Overlay has faded in: After you have loaded the overlay. After Overlay has started: At the start of the overlay. When Overlay has finished: At the end of the overlay. After a time delay(s): After a while determined that the next overlay starts. Once selected this option you can indicate the desired time between overlay and overlay.

In all previous actions it allows to turn add more options: Start an Overlay: Allows you to return to the beginning of the overlay. Stop an Overlay: It makes it possible to stop the overlay at any moment. Pause an Overlay: Pause the overlay. Load a URL in Native Browser: Facilitates the inclusion of a URL in the layer. Make an Overlay full screen: To make an overlay to full screen. Full screen with camera active: Allows access to the full screen when the camera is active Take an Overlay off full screen: Delete an overlay to full screen. Perform a random Action: Perform a random action.

When an option is checked, it must be indicated in which overlay the action is performed, through a drop-down. Once selected, click on "Done" and "Save".

After performing the chosen actions, you can see a scheme of them, edit them again or delete them.

The menu that is located at the bottom of the trigger and the overlay allow you to add or remove the blocking view "Add lock view", preview the final result "Preview", stop the overlay "Stop", adjust the 3D model to the overlay "3D View", resize "Resize" (adjust the entire trigger "Fit to trigger", stretch in several directions "Stretch to ..." move the overlay "Move" that allows you to align it and "Restore Aspect Ratio" ie go back to the original dimension) and “zoom in” and “zoom out".

After making all the desired settings in the overlay(s), click on the top right in "Next" and you access the following Aura editing screen:

You have to name the Aura "Aura Name: Name your Aura so people can find it!" and it is an important choice since it is the way it will be found in a fast and simple way by other users. Another important section that is not mandatory to complete but which is highly recommended is the one related to the "Hashtags". The more significant Aura hashtags you have the easier it is find it. Once you fill in these fields, press "Save" which is on the top right. In this way the Aura is saved. If you want to share with all users you just need to click on "Unshare". If you prefer to leave the Aura in Private, that is, only accessible for the chosen users, this option is not pressed. The "Preview" option allows you to see the result of augmented reality generated as long as the following instructions are followed:

To launch the Aura as it appears in the previous image you have to download the HP Reveal application through a mobile device (i0S or Android), access with the User data created in HP Reveal Studio. Select the "Auras" tab and inside from the "Explore" section update by dragging the screen down. To obtain the preview of the Aura it is necessary to mark the viewer of the application and focus the trigger with your device.

3. See Auras

The view of the Auras of the users will be possible if they have shared them. To discover them you have to press "Discover". If you want to do a filtering you can search in "Search", here the search is done by names of Auras. Another option is for hashtag and finally, on top left, you can filter the Auras as New "Newest", popular "Popular", featured “Featured”, or all “All Auras”.

Once you have found the Aura that you want to see, click on the following option:

and you can access the launch of the Aura - “Launch Aura". You also can see the hashtags associated with the Aura. If you click on Launch Aura you access a screen similar to the following but you can’t see augmented reality until the corresponding user is followed.

Pressing Campaign accesses the user's public Auras and marking “Follow" you can see all his Auras.

There is a type of Aura named by HP Reveal Studio as "Universal Aura" and they are Auras that all users can see without having to follow them, just activate the application and focus with the camera on the trigger image. This type of Auras are paid and are required by companies for large advertising campaigns. For requesting an Aura of this type you have to contact the HP Reveal support (https://www.hpreveal.com/contact/index.html ).

4. Create Auras with mobile device (Android)

The first step is to download the free HP Reveal app from Google Play. To login you must include the user and password of HP Reveal Studio (PC). If you don’t have a user with HP Reveal Studio, one can be obtained directly from HP Reveal.

If you press , "Explore" you will have the public Auras of the users as well as the Universals. To see them you have to press the Aura you want, follow the user - "Follow". As in HP Reveal Studio you can add favorite Auras "like" or share "share".

If you press the "Create" option (on the initial menu it is represented by a "+" on the upper right) two new sections appear "Library" and "Device" that serve to choose the overlay. "Library", shows overlays that are HP Reveal by default. "Device", allows the choice of overlays that appear on the device, previously used in HP Reveal or that can be captured with the camera. You can choose an image or a video.

Once selected, or done at the time, you access the start of the capture of the trigger:

The upper bar evaluates the quality of the trigger, the red side corresponds to poor quality and green to good quality. If a capture is made when the scale marks the red zone when you want to see the Aura you will have difficulties or you cannot see.

The capture of the trigger has to be done with the scale in green.

Once the image is captured, a preview of the trigger and the overlay ("Position overlay") appears. When pressing on the upper right you access to add the name of the Aura, select if you prefer to make it public or maintain it in private, and to the possibility of adding it to a "channel". If you add to a channel that has not yet been created, you can click on "+" and create it by adding the name in "Name", if you want, you have the possibility to include a description "Description", an image and make the channel public or private. Once you fill in the information, click on "Finish".

Once this process is done, the following screen appears in the device as a viewfinder and with it you can capture the trigger that automatically reproduces the overlay.

By pressing the that appears in the previous screen, it allows the return to the main menu and its different options. If we click inside "Explore" the upper section "Featured" you will find the highlighted Auras and in the upper right section, "Viewed" is where you can find the Auras seen before.

By pressing the corner icon square at the right bottom, it returns to the trigger viewer.

The search for Auras, channels and users can be done by pressing the magnifying glass icon in the lower area.

The last icon in the lower right area corresponds to the menu that displays the options, at the top, of "Following", "My Auras" and "Account".

"Following" contains the users and Auras that are followed by the user. "My Auras" reports the Auras created by the user, public and private. "Account" this section contains the data of the account, "email" and "password", as well as the option of changing user or exit the application by clicking "log out".

5. Create Auras with mobile device i0S

The procedure is similar to that of point number four of the manual, dedicated to creating Auras with mobile device (Android) except for a few notes, which are detailed below. To download HP Reveal in i0S you have to search in Apple Store for the appropriate software and proceed to its installation on the mobile device. As in the case of Android operating system, HP Reveal for iOS is a free app. From the initial screen you can access "Create an account", if it is the first time you use HP Reveal or "Login" if you have already created the account:

To create the account just click on the option "Create an account" and fill in the requested fields of the following screens (mail, password and Username):

If you have a user just click on "Log in" and include the "Username” and “Password ":

Once the session is started, the first screen that appears is the one of the set of Auras of HP Reveal and the option of searching if you know the name of any specifically, at the top in "Discover Auras".

If we click the option on the upper left on the symbol we access the "My Auras" menu, corresponding to the auras made by the user, at the option "Following", which includes the Auras that are followed and the "Settings" that contain the username, password, email, technical support and possibility of leaving comments to the support and the possibility to show the presentation of HP Reveal in the next release.

To start the process of creating Auras, you have to press the "+". In this case, the "+" is in the upper right part of the device's screen.

In i0S, first you get a photograph or capture of what will be the activator of the additional information. It also has a scale that goes from the red to green that refers to the quality of the image to take, so the green represents the optimal capture quality. Once the image is focused, press the blue circle of the lower area to take the picture.

After capturing the image, the next step is to choose the information to superimpose on it. You can choose the representations provided by HP Reveal, similar to those of the Android operating system that in this operating system are stored in the so-called "Library" or you can choose an overlay that is find in the device previously stored and accessed from the option that has the same name "Device".

The choice of the overlay from the device allows the realization at that moment, of a photograph with the “Camera" or the selection from the "Photo album".

If you chose the option “Library” you must choose an item provided by HP Reveal and press "Select".

The item selected on the “Library” will appeared superimposed on the image captured by the camera. In this point we can "move" the overlay or "rotate" (lower zone). Once the additional information has been edited, press "Next" (upper right area).

You access a menu where you have to put "Name" to the Aura and select a channel or "Create a new channel".

If you choose "Create a new channel", the boxes to complete are: Channel Photo: It's the place where you can put a distinctive image of the channel. You just have to click on the "+" and explore on your device and Choose an image. Channel name: Choose a name that will distinguish the channel. Description: This option allows describing the theme of the channel, but it is optional. Privacy settings: It is the place to select if a public channel is desired (it will be found easily through the search results) or private (it cannot be found in the search results). Once the fields are completed, the upper option "Ready" is selected.

If an existing channel is chosen, the option to advance would be "Send".

We already have our Aura created and we can share it with our friends through the button "Share". After sharing, click on the "Ready" option and the process of creating the Aura would have ended.

In order to see the aura, you just have to go to the option of initial menu and click on the icon:

From this icon we access the capture screen of the activator of information and we will obtain the additional information associated with that activator.

If you want to see Auras that others users have shared, as in the case of the Android App, you must search for the auras and "Follow" the channel. Only this way its visibility would be possible.

6. Summary

• Before you start working with HP Reveal Studio, create your own account.

• Download the appropriate mobile application to your device, Android or iOS.

• If you want to work in a comfortable and detailed manner, work with the HP Reveal Studio version, but remember that the auras will have to be seen with the App version.

• Remember that to see an aura you have to "follow" the channel in which you find, except the "Universal Auras", whose viewing is direct.