Welcome toAR Machine
Where daring ideas thrive, impact happens fast, and the future gets built.
AR Machine specializes in interactive touchscreen displays, custom software development, and augmented reality for museums, universities, and forward-thinking organizations.
Our work transforms exhibitions and educational spaces into engaging, accessible, and unforgettable experiences. Whether it's a mobile AR app, a dynamic timeline, or a fully integrated digital exhibit, we use cutting-edge technology and thoughtful design to synthesize complex stories that inspire curiosity and connection.
What we build
Six disciplines, one team — from first sketch to shipped exhibit.
Augmented & Virtual Reality
We design immersive, interactive experiences that blend the digital and physical worlds — perfect for exhibits, education, and storytelling. That covers mobile AR apps built with 8thWall and Unity, image-tracked web AR experiences, and full VR conversions optimized for headsets like Oculus. It's also the foundation behind EmpowAR, our own browser-based AR platform for museums and educators.
App & Custom Software
We build powerful tools that streamline operations, improve workflows, and help businesses run smarter — from mobile apps published on the App Store and Google Play, to fully custom platforms and training tools built around how your team actually operates.
Interface Design & Strategy
Beautiful interfaces, intuitive navigation, and purposeful design — crafted to support your goals and elevate the experience for the people using them. For us that often means designing for touchscreen kiosks in public spaces: interfaces that a first-time visitor can pick up instantly, with no instructions needed.
Generative Media Production
AI-generated video, imagery, and audio produced specifically for your exhibits, campaigns, and installations — built with today's leading generative models and shaped by real production and design experience, not just a prompt and a prayer.
Agency Services
We also offer branding and graphic design to bring your digital presence full circle — so the identity behind your kiosk, app, or platform feels considered from the logo down to the last screen.
WordPress Development
Built to perform, designed to impress. We craft custom WordPress sites that don't just look sharp — they work hard. Fast, secure, easy to manage, and tailored to your brand, whether it's a sleek portfolio or a complex interactive platform.
Interactive displays & kiosks
Touch-screen exhibits are most of what we ship — here's a look, plus a few AR and app builds.
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
An interactive timeline touchscreen tracing artist Abraham Rattner's life, work, and influence on 20th-century modernism.
Coastal Corridor
An interactive exhibit on how Florida's waters connect — clams, reefs, and seagrasses included — with trivia and a restoration-worker simulation.
Dogs Inc — Historical Timeline
A touchscreen timeline walking visitors through the history and key milestones of Dogs Inc, with video and an animated dog that walks as you scroll.
Whitney Labs — Sea Turtle
A simulated sea turtle rescue where visitors act as the veterinarian, plus a calculator showing how much plastic a baby turtle their size would ingest.
Whitney Labs — Restoration
A drag-and-drop simulation letting visitors test shoreline restoration methods and see their real effect on erosion and algae blooms.
Restaurants of the Keys
An interactive kiosk exploring 9 famous Florida Keys food spots, their history, and the dishes they're known for.
Tall Timbers — Dixie Plantation
A touchscreen aerial timeline letting visitors scrub between decades of plantation land use, feature by feature. Built in Unity.
Evolution of the Declaration of Independence
A touchscreen kiosk tracing how the Declaration was drafted and revised, pairing the original manuscript with an easy-to-read transcript and clickable edits.
Naples Historical Society
Touchscreen museum kiosk on a Florida plantation's history, with two window apps, video, an interactive map, and animation. Built in Unity.
Whitney Labs — eDNA
An interactive game introducing environmental DNA — sample three habitats, match genome sequences, and reveal which animals live there.
WMNF 88.5 FM
Lead-developed radio station app live on Google Play and the App Store, built in Unity, streaming live audio, news, and events via API.
Alann Jordan — Web AR Art
A WebGL app using a fine art painting as an image tracker, placing clickable overlays where the artist explains its symbolism.
Florida Strawberry Festival
A family-friendly touchscreen exhibit on Festival Queens history, blending fun facts with a trivia game for all ages.
Zodiak Financial Training Game
A 2D WebGL "on-rails" board game for financial training — over 500 pages deep and about four hours to play start to finish.
EmpowAR
Our web-based AR platform that turns museum labels into interactive experiences — audio, video, and accessibility features included.
Whitney Labs — Regeneration
An interactive science kiosk exploring which animals can regrow body parts, and why humans can't.
Whitney Labs — Sense of Place
A touchscreen kiosk with simple playback controls for two videos — a construction timelapse and a short film on why the lab is there.
Food Fight!
A two-player voting kiosk on a dozen famous Key West dishes, tracking which recipes are in the lead — with results collected year after year.
Boyd Hill
An interactive data display tracking 180 bird species' migration over a year, with buttons letting visitors isolate and follow a single species.
You Make the Call
A dual-display kiosk where visitors record their own play-by-play over famous Indy 500 race clips, karaoke-style, then hear it played back.
Our current clients
Museums, colleges, festivals, and cultural institutions we've built for.
Companies who share our commitment to innovation and help us deliver for our clients.
EmpowAR
A browser-based AR platform built for curators and educators. EmpowAR delivers rich media overlays — audio, video, and text — straight from a mobile website. No app download. Fully responsive, accessible, and easy for your team to update.
See it in action →
Three people, one studio
Small on purpose — every project gets all three of us, not a rotating account team.
Kevin
PARTNEROperations, sales, customer relations, and project management — the one keeping every project on schedule and every client in the loop.
Brandon
PARTNERTechnical lead and software engineer — the one building the AR, the apps, and everything running under the hood.
Brian
DESIGNERThe designer — shaping how every exhibit, app, and interface looks, feels, and holds together.
GOT A SPACE
THAT NEEDS A STORY?
Tell us what you're building — an exhibit, a campus tool, a platform from scratch. We'll follow up within one business day.
- Response time — within 1 business day
- Based in — St. Petersburg, Florida
- Works with — museums, colleges, cultural orgs, brands