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Rupi Kaur AR Filter

A celestial AR filter to connect a global audience to Rupi Kaur's latest book, "home body."

Rupi Kaur posing between sheets hanging from a clothesline

A reflective journey

We were tasked with creating an AR filter for Facebook and Instagram to help promote the release of Kaur's latest book, an intimate, illustrated collection of writings exploring themes of nature and nurture, light and dark. Both world-facing and selfie-facing views offer users a peek into Kaur's new book with a sunlit filter.

Rupi Kaur posing with the text saying I am waking up to my godself
An AR filter showing a Rupi Kaur quote
An AR filter showing a Rupi Kaur quote
An AR filter showing a Rupi Kaur quote

Transcendent selfie

The world-facing view was designed to showcase a poem from home body. The selfie-facing view, complete with sunlit beauty filter, crown and halo, offers users a moment of empowered celestial calm as they transcend into their "godself"—a sentiment echoed in Kaur's work.

A clay model with a floral bandana
Rupi Kaur holding her book

Outcome

Working with teams across 5 cities, the Thinkingbox team utilized AI to create the halo and sun rays and Maya to render the 3D crown. Both selfie and world-facing views were finalized in Spark AR. We received 6.9 million impressions, 3.3 million opens, 387.5K captures, and 52.4K shares.

Credits:

  • Simon & Schuster

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