Welcome to the Zappar blog archive

Emma Moore

Top 5 AI tools to use in your next AR project

Learn about how AI tools can be used to make AR projects within the strategy, ideation, creation and evaluation phases of a campaign.

Connell Gauld

Mattercraft beta is now live

Find out how you can join the Mattercraft beta and start building rich 3D experiences for the web.

Emma Moore

Transform your AR experiences with photorealistic avatars in Zapworks Designer

Find out how to add photorealistic avatars into your AR experiences. No coding is required to add fully customisable and animated avatars into any WebAR experience.

Caspar Thykier

How to create successful AR campaigns

Discover the five key ingredients to ensure your AR campaigns deliver the best results, every time.

Emma Moore

4 best tools to capture and create 3D models using your phone

Find out how to capture 3D models to use in AR with just your phone. Read about the tools which are easy and quick to use.

Emma Moore

Zapworks Designer Hackathon

Zappar hosted an internal hackathon where our team created engaging AR experiences. Find out what made the experiences were successful within the hackathon.

Emma Moore

Beginners Guide to UI/UX for AR

User-centric design is a crucial to AR. Learn the basics of UI & UX design to create engaging, easy-to-use AR experiences that users will love.

Emma Moore

Where to source 3D assets

Find the right platform to source your 3D models. Zappar have created a list of free and premium websites to help you find just the right assets for your project and your budget.

Emma Moore

Additional tools for your 3D AR projects

For a truly immersive 3D experience, detail within your scenes is essential. We've put together a shortlist of some of the best tools for adding details to your 3D AR projects.

Emma Moore

Which 3D tool should I use for AR?

There are lots of tools available to assist in creating 3D content for AR experiences, but which ones are the best to use?

Connell Gauld

Image sharing in Zappar WebAR just got even easier with iOS 15

The iOS 15 update brings with it seamless image sharing in WebAR, a performance upgrade and UI tweaks, making iPhone and iPads even more powerful for web-based augmented reality experiences.

Connell Gauld

How to improve the photorealism of your AR experiences on the web

We'll discuss some of the techniques, best practices, and tricks(!) we can use to improve the photorealism of real-time AR experiences, and present a believable simulation to our users.