in this video I'd like to demonstrate
how you can add augmented reality to
your postcards recently I took a trip to
Cancun Mexico and visited Chichen Itza
and I picked up a couple of postcards
now it'd be great if I could send
somebody a postcard and not just show
him a picture of what I saw but a video
of what I saw if you go to the website
zap dot works you can create a personal
account for free click here you can see
the personal account is free for five
experiences which you get started with
your personal account at zap works go
ahead and click on register if you have
a Facebook account or Google account you
can register with one of those otherwise
you can add in your email address once
you've created an account you can go
ahead and log in and the first time you
log in it asks what kind of account you
would like to create for creating an
augmented reality postcard I recommend
using the personal account it is free
for five zap code so I'm going to go
ahead and check that I click create a
personal account I'm gonna go ahead and
put my name in here and I click continue
to zap works they will show you some
videos that demonstrate how to use their
software I recommend going through and
watching them but I want to show you how
to create your own augmented reality
using a postcard now you will have five
zap codes remaining a zap code
essentially is a small icon that will
allow you to put it on your postcard to
add things to your postcard so I'm going
to come over here where it says make a
new zap code you can either choose a
circle shape or the laws in shape I'm
going to go ahead and choose this circle
shape and I'm gonna create my first zap
code from chichén itzá
and I'm going to click on continue now I
like using the designer if you are a
beginner this is the perfect way to
explore augmented reality Studios more
intense and I'm just gonna simply click
on designer I select that I click create
zap code and what this will do is it
creates this special code that is unique
just for this project I can now click to
edit this project so the first thing
that I need to do
download my zap code which is right here
I come down where it says download your
zap code it gives you two different
options a PNG or an SVG if you have a
program like Adobe Illustrator that you
can edit you can download an SVG but if
you're just beginning I recommend
downloading the PNG now I can open this
and I can see this is a really big
picture this would take up my entire
postcard I would like to print this out
but I want it small enough that I can
put on my postcard so what I'm going to
do is open up Microsoft Word I create a
blank document I go to insert pictures
picture from file I go to where I
downloaded that image I click insert now
I can see this is really big I can see
rulers at the top I want this to be
about half an inch wide so I'm going to
click on a corner and I'm just going to
drag this down
until it is about half an inch and I can
look at my ruler here so now I'm going
to print this image file print and I
click print
once you have printed out your zap code
cut it out
make sure when you cut it out and not to
cut off any of the lines sometimes I
like to leave it a little extra border
around take your postcard flip it over
take a glue stick add the glue to your
image glue your zap code onto the
postcard and now what I like to do is
take a picture of just my postcard try
to get a picture without shadows when
you have the picture
I recommend cropping it cropping means
cutting out so we just want to see the
postcard now it doesn't have to be
perfect cropping but we do have to be
able to see the zap code so I'm going to
go ahead and include that right there I
tap Done so now I'm going to send that
image using airdrop I select the image
and then I select the computer I save
the image to my downloads I'm going to
go back to zap works and I go back to my
chichén itzá zap code this is a zap code
of where I was putting the content now
I've downloaded the content over here it
says edit zap code content so I click on
here
it has a video instructions that will
show you how you can do this one thing
it has you do is download your zap code
I've already done that so I'm going to
click here and I'm just going to click
on continue because I've already
downloaded the image I've already put my
zap code inside of the image that I want
to show the augmented reality which is
my post card so now I can upload the
tracking image what the tracking image
is this is what you're going to scan
your phone over to see if it works so
I'm going to go ahead and upload a
tracking image I choose the image that I
just cropped out for my tracking image
it uploads it it checks to make sure
that you have the correct zap code and
it analyzes what you have done
and notice here it says correct zap code
found this is telling it how it's going
to find your image so I'm going to go
ahead and use this tracking image now
this brings in the image of the postcard
here what I can do now is I can put in
pictures videos photo albums sounds
texts a lot more let me go ahead and
start by adding an image so I click on
image I've already uploaded a couple of
images to upload an image it's as simple
as quick upload image and you can choose
your images that you have and when it
uploads it processes it for a few
seconds so here you can see the one
image I uploaded there's actually an
iguana hidden right here in the corner
of this image let's say that I wanted to
add in a couple of images or a photo
album I can just click on add photo
album and I can choose a couple of
images that I have uploaded just by
clicking on the plus sign I can put them
into my photo album I don't remove that
one and so here I have a couple of
images I can choose selected images I
can drag this where I want it to be I
can make it a little bit bigger or
smaller I can also rotate this if it is
wrong I'm going to go ahead and bring it
back to right there so now I have
created a photo album a photo and I can
put in a video as well so if I click on
video I can upload my own video now I've
recently uploaded the video all I have
to do is click OK I can drag the video
where I want it to appear and once I
have it where I want it I click off of
it I can also add in text so for example
I can add this text I double click my
trip to
chichen-itza I can click off and then I
can move the text around wherever I want
it to be if I scroll down to the bottom
I can see there's properties for each of
these things for example when I bring in
a video I can take the video I can have
a loop I can have it play on the start I
can do different things I'm not going to
worry about that right now I just want
to show you how you can add the
augmented reality to this postcard so
now I've added a picture a slideshow a
video and some text to this postcard and
to make it work
and to test it I could click preview but
I like to click publish and what
publishing does is it makes this zap
code active and it adds this content to
my zap code so now if I go to my phone
if I open up the zap our app and I scan
over the postcard it says its unlocking
that means it's downloading the content
that I have placed on there and you can
see here that as I move this around or
if I move the postcard around and I can
tap on my slideshow picture slideshow
photo album I can play my video and
there you have it a very simple way to
create an augmented reality postcard of
somewhere that you have visited I hope
you've enjoyed seeing how you can create
your own augmented reality postcard
Try it out and good luck
 
