Laguna Beach Portal

Experience Laguna Beach

The Laguna Beach Portal app uses augmented reality portals, 360-degree video and 3D audio to provide you with unique and interesting experiences while you walk the streets of Laguna Beach, California.

Each experience consists of a series of portals, or doorways, that have been strategically placed around Laguna allowing anyone with an iPhone to experience the Laguna Beach lifestyle in ways that have not been possible in the past.

Each experience is guided by a person who is involved in the subject and can share nuanced information and interesting insight into Laguna Beach. As you approach a portal, an arched doorway appears, and as you walk through the doorway you are walking into that location at a different time, or a different location altogether.

The app contains an expanding list of experiences that will include musical tours, public art tours, surf tours, historical tours, shopping tours, views into local sporting events, (like the Laguna Beach Open Volleyball Tournament) and a tour of one of Laguna’s sister cities--Menton, France.

You will use your phone’s screen as a window into the experience. This app is aware of your location and is designed to work in Laguna Beach, California.

Please use earphones or earbuds while using this app. You will hear an audio narration as you move from one portal to the next. To hear the narration again, simply touch the Redo control (the circular arrow) on the app’s control bar.

Once you’re in a portal, go ahead and look around--it’s a 360-degree experience.

Feel free to move around within the portal, but don’t venture too far-- the width of each portal is currently set to about 50 feet.

Each portal will remain open for about 90 seconds. When one portal closes you will be given audible instructions to locate the next portal. For additional help finding the next portal, simply touch the Navigation Arrow on your phone’s screen. The direction and distance to the next portal will be displayed momentarily each time you touch the Navigation Arrow.