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Clever Use of Augmented Reality: Tracing Virtual Art to Quickly Create Murals

By Rain Noe - October 22, 2025

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The other day I saw something funny: I drove past a house with a long privacy fence that had been painted white, and across it, someone had spraypainted "[email protected]" (or something similar.) I found it funny because if the e-mail address owner was not the house owner, they were essentially forcing the house owner to re-paint the fence; and if the e-mail owner and the house owner was the same person, it means they couldn't even come up with a good idea for a mural to advertise their own services, just their scrawled e-mail address.

In any case, as we've seen with Hanif Panni's clever work, painting murals takes a great deal of skill. And I'm not saying the artist below isn't skilled, but she has come up with a techno hack that makes her job a good deal easier. Said artist, who works as a mural painter in the Mexican city of Nava, uses an AR headset to virtually overlay her drawings on the surfaces she's working.

Then all she has to do is trace it.

The end product, by the way…

…is glow-in-the-dark:

The artist says she's using a Meta Quest 3.

This reminds me of Foundation Year exercises at art school, where they had us trace drawings by old masters. Perhaps in the coming years, those exercises will be done by a bunch of kids wearing goggles.

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Alan Nomoto

6 months ago

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Autotune arrives in the visual "arts".

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  Pretty obvious from the pseudo-toony "style" even the "original" pic is just an AI gen image as well, they couldn't even be bothered to ask an artist to make the work in the first place. Must have awful coffee if that's how little they care about their marketing.
  
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    I would very much prefer a coffee house to spend money on good quality coffee then good quality marketing.
    
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Artists have been tracing projected mural artworks onto walls for years now, this isn't really anything new other than using VR instead of an actual projector.

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  Except the catalogue to choose an image from is infinitely more vast & like music, attribution to the creator of the art is lost, not to mention losing out on the money it brings. This isn't like covering someone else's song.
  
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