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Origins AR

Updated 6 October 2026CC-BY-4.0
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Origins AR is the free augmented reality app for the Origins Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand. Visitors point a phone at labels in the Rock Engraving Archive or the Spirit World gallery and watch the animals in the engravings come to life. The app launched in April 2021. Worldbuild delivered Unity AR work for the museum in 2021 and 2022, and returned in 2025.

What it tests

Rock art is fragile and still. Origins AR tests whether animation on a phone can deepen attention to an engraving rather than pulling the eye away from it.

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  • Wits Origins Centre — Augmented Reality
  • App Store — WitsOriginsCentreAR (published by Dale Deacon, 2022)

Related: Expeditions, cradle-of-humankind, Immersion.

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