Favor AR Pen Lets You Draw Messages in Air, Print as Photo Cards - Yanko Design

"Most of our gifts to friends now are quick messages, emojis, or mobile vouchers that arrive instantly and disappear just as fast. They're convenient but rarely feel as meaningful as a handwritten note or a physical card you can pin to a wall. Favor AR Message is a concept that tries to bring some of that effort and ceremony back into how Gen Z says thank you, sorry, or congratulations, without abandoning phones entirely."

"Favor is a speculative system built around three parts: an AR pen, a tiny photo printer, and a mobile app. You use the pen to draw messages in augmented reality, the app to decorate and package them, and the printer to turn them into physical photo cards. The recipient scans the card with their phone to see the hidden AR message floating above it, like a secret that only appears when you know where to look."

"The AR pen, called LIT, is a slim wand that the phone's camera tracks while you draw in the air. In the app, your strokes become floating 3D text and graphics, animated with light and particles. The designers call this process "LITing," and it turns writing a message into a small performance, closer to painting with light than typing into a chat window or firing off another text you'll forget about ten minutes later."

Favor AR Message integrates an AR pen called LIT, a compact photo printer, and a mobile app to create hybrid digital-physical messages. Users draw in the air with a tracked wand; those strokes become floating 3D text and animated graphics in the app. Compositions can be layered onto photo cards and printed so the surface appears as a cute mini print while encoding a hidden AR scene. Recipients scan the card to reveal the AR content, then record reaction videos to send back. The system aims to restore ceremony and tangibility to quick mobile gestures.

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