Multiple Images, One Powerful Experience: Multi-Image Tracking Now Live in Designer

Hello everyone!

We're thrilled to announce that one of our most requested features is now live in Zapworks Designer – Multi-Image Tracking! This update transforms how you build image-tracked experiences, allowing you to create rich, interconnected projects that respond to multiple target images without needing separate QR codes or triggers to launch an individual project each time.

What is Multi-Image Tracking?

Multi-image tracking enables one AR experience to store multiple reference images (targets) and recognise whichever target the camera sees, then anchor the corresponding digital content to that image with no additional QR codes or projects.

In Designer, you can now create these powerful experiences, all within a single project. While you can only track one image at a time, you can seamlessly build multiple scenes that respond to different target images in the same project. This opens up incredible storytelling possibilities across print, product showcases, and interactive campaigns that were simply not possible before.

How to use Multi-Image Tracking

Multi-Image Tracking builds on everything you already know and love about single-image tracking in Designer but expands it to support multiple images in a single project. Each scene has a tracking image assigned to it – you can select and train target images per scene, or have multiple scenes tracking to the same target image for more complex experiences.

1. For your first image-tracked scene, you'll need to train a target image using the "select target image" button in the scene menu.

2. Subsequent image-tracked scenes will give you the option to select from an already trained image target or train a new one. If you choose an already used target image, the first one in the bottom scene list will become the first scene shown when that image is in the camera view.

3. Build up your content in your scene using Designer's no-code drag-and-drop components.

4. When a project has multiple different target images in scenes, the end user experience automatically enters "scanning mode" when a target is out of the camera view. Users will see a helpful carousel displaying all the target images the project is looking for, guiding them to find the right image. Once an image is detected in the camera view, the first scene assigned to that target image will activate.

5. You can use actions to explicitly link to specific scenes. If that scene uses a different target image, the prompt will show only the single target image it's looking for, creating a more focused user experience.

You can also use the new “look for target images” action to explicitly let users enter scanning mode to switch between targets.

Show on Screen Updates

We've made the "Show on Screen" option disabled by default for all projects, as we believe this creates a better user experience in most cases. For scavenger hunt scenarios, for example, you might not want users launching scenes tracked to different images without having them in view. However, you can still enable "Show on Screen" from the scene menu and it will work seamlessly for both single and multi-image tracking projects.

Combine Face, World and Multi-Image Tracking

Much like everything in Designer, multi-image tracking will also work with other scene types. You can have an image-tracked scene, link to a face-tracked scene, then link to an entirely different image-tracked scene. The possibilities are endless.

Head over to the brand new multi-image tracking documentation to learn more!

Use Cases

With Multi-Image Tracking, there are brand new categories of experiences that are available to build, completely no-code. For example:

Magazine Campaigns: Create immersive stories that span multiple pages, with each article or advertisement triggering different AR content that builds on the overall narrative.

Collectible Card Games: Design experiences where each card reveals unique content, characters, or gameplay elements that interact with others in the collection.

Restaurant Menus: Transform dining with interactive menus where different sections trigger 3D food visualizations, ingredient information, or chef videos.

Business Card Networks: Create professional networking experiences where each team member's card reveals their expertise, portfolio, or contact information.

Multi-Image Tracking Limits

Each plan includes different multi-image tracking limits:

• Developer: up to 5 target images

• Edu: up to 5 target images

• Pro: up to 10 target images

• Enterprise: up to 10 target images

Try it Now

Multi-Image Tracking is available in Designer today. Whether you're creating brand activations, educational experiences, or interactive entertainment, this feature lets you build more engaging, interconnected AR experiences than ever before.

Scan the QR code and look at the different images, see it come to life!

Stay up to date with 'What's New' in Designer

We've listened to your feedback about keeping you more up-to-date with new features and changes in Designer and introduced a 'What's New' modal that appears when Designer has been updated. This shows all the latest features, updates, and improvements in an easily digestible format. Don't worry, we'll still write comprehensive product announcements for major releases like this one!

What's Next?

This is just the beginning of some exciting updates we have planned for Designer. We're constantly working to expand what's possible in no-code AR creation, and we can't wait to share what we're building next.

As always, we'd love to see what you create! Share your multi-image tracking projects with us on Discord. Don't hesitate to reach out with any questions or feedback.

Here's to creating more immersive, connected AR experiences!

– The Designer Team