Meadow 1.3: Samples + a lot more features!

Hope you had a long and calm summer, filled with sun, swims and ice cream. We've got plenty of exciting updates covering every corner of our ecosystem, from new experience features to Meadow samples and a fresh new website. And as always, Best of Meadow at the bottom.

Samples are here!

We've added samples to Meadow! Browse different examples to kickstart your project or learn specific techniques. Want to see how quickly you can set up Image Tracking? Curious about using the Dialogue System and the new Save System for creating your own mini-RPG? There’s a sample for it!

We will continuously update the samples list. In the future, we will open for any creator to submit samples to the Unity plugin. However, you can already upload a package of your experience to the web app that others can download - more on that below.

Find the samples:

• In Unity: Meadow > Samples

• On the web app: Press the “Download Project” button on an experience and import the package to Unity.

Meadow 1.3

Meadow 1.3 is live on both app stores, bringing stability improvements and new features that open up for a lot of interesting experiences:

🔗 Experience Linking – Connect experiences so users can jump between them. Perfect for multi-level games, connected artworks, or creating your own exhibition within Meadow (or your own Meadow within Meadow? The meta possibilities are endless…)

Experience Linking Manual

Experience Linking Sample

💾 Save Manager – Let you save user progress so they can return exactly where they left off. Great for creating real games, interactive audio walks in the city, or any other narrative experience where you want your audience to be able to return to the point they left off.

Save Manager Manual

Save Manager Sample

⚡️ Unity 6.1 Support – Has been working in the past months and is now officially supported. Unity 6.2 support is coming in the next few weeks.

🪗 And more - Tons of new minor features and bug fixes.

Unity Plugin

Meadow Studio gets a major upgrade with improved organisation and bug fixes. Your asset bundles now appear alphabetically (finally), and the plugin remembers your settings for each experience.

New Website & Updated Webapp

We've redesigned our website from scratch to better showcase Meadow's capabilities. Take a look, we’re really happy with the result!

We've also added a News section where we'll post case studies, deep dives into new features, and other Meadow-related content.

While we were at it, we gave some love to the webapp and added a few features:

🗿 Profile Page - You can now edit your profile and decide which experiences should be visible publicly. Press the three dots in the top right of an experience and select “Featured” for it to be visible to others viewing your profile. Coming to the mobile app soon!

📝 Redesigned Experience Editing – Cleaner interface with all tabs vertically to the left, matching how experiences are viewed.

📦 Project Package Upload - You can now upload a Unity package of your experience for others to download. We know users often share Unity packages with each other, so we simplified this process for you. Find it at the bottom of the Assets tab. Access to these will be added to Meadow Studio in the future.

🗺️ Bulk Location Distribution (PRO only) – Create multiple locations from a location type. Perfect for large-scale site-type-specific projects. For example, place your experience at every bus stop in your city or every town square.

Best of Meadow - Recent Outstanding Experiences

Outdoor Augmented Reality Gallery in Linköping

Students from Sankt Lars gymnasium's art programme have created Sweden's newest AR sculpture park, featuring everything from swirling portals to the 19th century, to mushrooms peering at you with blinking eyes. The project bridges traditional arts education with emerging technologies, giving young artists tools to shape the digital future.

Technology doesn't choose sides—the creator does. Augmented reality still has the advantage of bringing us together. Even though we live in an increasingly individualised world where we let our phones create our worldview, we still share public space.

Anders Lindkvist, curator at Skådebanan and initiator of the project, captures one of our main drives in this quote. Projects like this are exactly why we built Meadow.

Av jord är du kommen (Ashes to Ashes), by Marika Hedemyr

Marika Hedemyr, one of our resident artists, is back with a new experience at the intersection of physical and digital public space. Ashes to Ashes is a contemplative mixed reality walk designed for cemeteries, which meditates on the material origins of our mobile devices. The experience is mainly audio-only, and sparingly uses AR to set the scene for the main audio narrative. We love this deliberate use of AR, a refreshing example of technology serving the artistic vision rather than demanding attention for itself.

Upcoming shows:

• Malmö August 21-23 August  - Get your tickets here

• Helsinki on August 30 - More information here

Intern Showcase: Linxi & Diego

Over the summer, we had two great interns from Central Saint Martins who worked on the platform and created some beautiful AR experiences. Linxi Xie created an interactive wishing tree that rains leaves over you when you tell it what you wish for, and Diego Palacios created a volumetric recording of a DJ set, transforming music into ethereal, ghostly visuals.

Experience their work on Meadow:

We hope the new samples and features are helpful. Let us know on Discord if you have any questions or encounter any issues.

In the coming months, we're focusing more on creating resources for users. Expect more tutorials, demos and showcases. Let us know what you'd like to learn!

If you know creators who might be interested in Meadow, we'd love an introduction. We're happy to offer an onboarding session to help new users get started.

Wishing you a warm and cosy end of summer

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