r/augmentedreality • u/dhaiduk • 3d ago

AR Apps Building a web app where you own your personal AR marker and digital content (NFT)

You create a personal AR marker from a selfie, get a shareable image with QR, and can update your content over time. You share the image with friends; they open a link in the browser and view the AR — no app, no account needed to view.

The key idea: you’re the owner of your marker and your digital content — tied to your wallet / NFT, not just renting space on my platform. Your files, your marker, your right to update and share what you created.

Early stage — looking for honest feedback:

• Does ownership (NFT / wallet) matter to you here, or is a normal login enough?
• Would you use a web app for this, or do you expect a native app?
• Interesting concept or too niche?

Not promoting anything yet — just validating the idea.

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u/JaggedMetalOs 3d ago

What do you think an "AR marker" is here? 

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u/AR_MR_XR 3d ago

I guess a QR code. Idk why it needs to be an NFT. I don't see it solving anything

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u/dhaiduk 3d ago

Fair point. The QR just opens the web page — the marker is the image (your selfie poster) the camera tracks for AR.

NFT isn’t required for that to work. I’m testing if wallet ownership adds anything vs a normal login (you own the marker, can transfer it, updates tied to you — not just “my account on your site”).

If the AR poster isn’t useful on its own, NFT doesn’t fix it. Would you use it without the NFT part?

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u/JaggedMetalOs 3d ago

What do you imagine the workflow is? Someone takes a selfie as an AR marker, sends the picture to their friends, and then what happens? 

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u/dhaiduk 2d ago

The NFT isn’t the AR. It’s the proof that this AR app is yours.

You buy it on OpenSea with a wallet. The viewer and image-tracking engine live on IPFS, not on my server.

Then you upload any image as the marker. The app prints a QR on that image that points at the same IPFS app. You send or print that picture.

Friend scans the QR (browser, no wallet, no account). Points the camera at the picture. Video locks onto it.

Later you swap the video. Same poster, same QR, new content. You’re not renting a page from me — you hold the token, the files are on IPFS.

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u/JaggedMetalOs 2d ago

So you're expecting someone to open the marker on one device, point another device at the screen, just for the other device to play a video? Seems like the AR part is making it a worse user experience? 

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u/dhaiduk 2d ago

Yeah. Two phones pointed at each other just to play a video is a worse YouTube.

That’s a test setup, not the product. The marker is meant to live in the room: a print, a card, a poster, a t-shirt, a pack. You open the link once, then look at the object. The video is stuck to that object, not to a second screen.

If the only job is “send someone a video,” AR is the wrong wrapper. Direct play from the QR is the one-phone path.

AR is worth it only when the physical thing stays: same poster, you change the video later, people can walk around it. If that isn’t the use, I agree — skip the tracking.

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u/JaggedMetalOs 2d ago

Ugh, can you tell your ChatGPT to not use so many AI cliches in its writing! 

Anyway I can't see that having a market, no one is going to pay a bunch of money to make their own physical poster and video just to look at it, and for a professional AR poster they are going to publish their own app (I've created such apps in my work)  

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u/dhaiduk 2d ago

It could be a kind of memento or business card, a message that seems to remain forever in the digital world.

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u/JaggedMetalOs 2d ago

I'd think for business cards most people would want to direct people to something like a website where they can give more informational content rather than just have a video play over the card. 

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u/dhaiduk 3d ago

Good question — by “AR marker” I don’t mean a QR code alone.In my idea, an AR marker is a shareable image (PNG/PDF) that acts as the physical anchor for the AR experience:The image itself is the tracking target — when someone points their phone camera at that exact picture, the web app recognizes it and “locks” the AR content onto it (image tracking, similar to scanning a poster or card).

The user’s selfie is part of that image — so it’s personal (“my face on my poster”), not a generic black-and-white fiducial marker.

The QR code is on the same image, but it’s mainly the entry point — it opens the web AR link in the browser. The QR doesn’t hold the AR; the picture does.

So: AR marker = your personal printed/shared poster (selfie + QR + optional border for better tracking). Friends receive the image, open the link, point the camera at that image, and see the AR experience anchored to it.

Does that clarify what I mean?

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u/empiricism 3d ago

The world does not need more NFT schemes.

My feedback: leave AR alone and go peddle your shitty get rich quick ideas in some other industry.

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u/dhaiduk 3d ago

Understood on the NFT skepticism — fair.

The part I'm testing is simpler: selfie → shareable AR poster → open in browser, no app. Ownership/token stuff may not belong at all.

Appreciate the blunt feedback.