Thanks to a new app designed by the University of South Florida, you can now watch three murals come to life in Downtown Clearwater. It’s called Artours Clearwater (stylized “ARTours”), and it’s a fun, free new way to explore downtown Clearwater before you attend your next concert at The Sound.
The City of Clearwater commissioned seven murals between 2018 and 2021. You can view the murals, along with their locations, on the City’s Downtown Clearwater Mural Program. As the artists painted, Clearwater’s Community Redevelopment Agency entered conversations with USF’s Access 3D Lab and Advanced Visualization Center.
“At that point in time, the idea of augmented reality murals was newer, more or less,” says CRA Manager Eric Santiago. “So it was definitely [something that] was not being offered in the area. There’s a lot more of them now. But when these conversations started back in 2019, it was more of a new concept.”
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