In development
ARTwain
Art in two eyes.
An app for AR glasses, made by an artist.
Stereoscopic art and 3D experiences, one picture for each eye. Your phone in your hand. You need AR glasses to use ARTwain.
Above: Charles's Wain, the Big Dipper. Left eye, right eye.
What it is
A gallery for your eyes. Both of them.
ARTwain is an app for display AR glasses, made by an artist. To our knowledge, it is the first. It shows Charlie Caper's stereoscopic artworks the way they were made: full side-by-side 3D, where each eye gets its own 1920-pixel picture.
It is also a home for real-time 3D experiences. You look into the glasses. Your phone becomes the controller. No headset strapped to your face, just glasses, a cable and a phone.
Before you get it
ARTwain needs AR glasses.
It does not play on your phone screen. The art and experiences only show in display AR glasses with a 3D (side-by-side) mode, connected to your phone with a USB-C cable.
- Glasses: XREAL first. VITURE, RayNeo and Rokid planned.
- Phone: iPhone 15 or newer (USB-C). Android later.
How it works
Plug in. Switch to 3D. Look up.
Plug in
Connect your AR glasses to your phone with USB-C. The glasses become a big private screen.
Switch to 3D
Press your glasses' 3D button. ARTwain shows you where it is on your model.
Watch
Each eye gets its own full picture. Your brain does the rest, and the art steps out into the room.
Play
Your phone is the controller. Touch, press and swipe while the world happens in the glasses.
First experience
A Rubik's cube that floats in mid-air.
It hangs in front of you in real 3D. Touch your phone to point at a sticker, press firmly to grab it, and drag to turn the row. Drag on empty space to spin the whole cube.
Left eye
Right eye
Got old 3D glasses?
Put on the red and cyan ones.
Same two pictures, the 1950s way: the left eye in red, the right eye in cyan. AR glasses do it properly, in full colour, one screen per eye.
Artworks
The first artwork is almost ready.
A stereoscopic music video, made for two eyes from the first frame. Full side-by-side 3D, 3840 x 1080, 60 frames per second.
We are keeping it under wraps until the premiere. Leave your address and you will be among the first to see it.
Already have glasses?
Try it right now.
Plug your glasses into a computer, switch them to 3D and open our test page. A cube floats in front of you, in real 3D, straight from the browser.
Supported glasses
Made for the glasses you already have.
Any display AR glasses with a full side-by-side 3D mode. We start with XREAL. Setup for your model
- XREALFirst up
- VITUREPlanned
- RayNeoPlanned
- RokidPlanned
Phones: iPhone 15 and newer (USB-C video out).
Later: Android phones with video out over USB-C, then Meta Quest.
The name
Three ideas in one word.
- AR in ART
- Augmented reality, hiding in plain sight inside art. The art is the point. The tech just lives in the middle of the word.
- Twain
- An old word for two. Two eyes, two pictures, side by side. With a nod to Mark Twain.
- Charles's Wain
- The old name for the Big Dipper. Charlie is short for Charles. That is the Dipper in our logo, seen through red and cyan 3D glasses.
About
Made by Charlie Caper.
Charlie Caper is a magician, artist and creative technologist from Sweden, making illusions, interactive shows and digital art that play with how we see.
ARTwain is where Charlie's stereoscopic work lives. It is developed by Caper Productions AB.
Get notified
Tell me when it is out.
One email when ARTwain launches, and one when the first artwork premieres. Nothing else.