Augmented Reality custom events
Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunts
Bring real-world locations to life with app-supported clues, map markers, photo reveals, and location-based challenges. Mr Treasure Hunt can add Augmented Reality moments to existing outdoor routes or build a custom AR experience for your campus, park, neighborhood, downtown route, tour, or destination event.
Download the free AR app before your event.
What the AR feature adds to a scavenger hunt.
Augmented Reality gives teams a digital layer on top of the real world. It keeps the event flexible, visible, and interactive without requiring permanent signs, printed props, or a fixed indoor setup.
Place virtual markers across a route so teams can see where key challenge moments are located.
As players approach the correct spot, the app can reveal images, text, confirmations, or the next challenge.
Use your campus, downtown route, neighborhood, tour route, or destination venue as the setting for a custom event.
AR clue moments can work well for temporary events where signs, props, or venue modifications are not practical.
Clues keep people moving, talking, solving, and regrouping at moments planned around the event route.
AR can support parks, downtown routes, corporate campuses, hotels, neighborhood routes, and destination events.
AR map feature demo
See how the AR map feature fits your group event.
The video shows how the Mr Treasure Hunt AR Experience app helps participants move through an event location with confidence. Teams can view the map, see the AR markers placed around the area, and use the blue location icon to understand where they are in relation to each marker.
- Markers activate as teams get close.When a participant approaches a marker, the map view gives way to the message, image, clue, or prompt assigned to that location.
- Teams can return to the route.After viewing the AR moment, participants can go back to the map, see the remaining markers, and decide which stop to visit next.
- Every AR moment can be customized.Marker locations, images, messages, and clue content can be tailored to your venue, route, audience, and event goals.
Watch the map feature in action.
Follow the player as they use the map to locate nearby AR markers, trigger a location-based reveal, and return to the map to continue the scavenger hunt.
How it works
Here is how app-supported clues work during the event.
The AR layer is designed to support the live experience, not replace it. Teams still explore the location together, solve clues, and interact with the real environment.
- 1Teams solve clues that lead them to selected locations on the event route.
- 2At the right spot, participants open the Mr Treasure Hunt AR Experience app.
- 3As teams approach the correct marker, the app reveals the AR clue, image, prompt, or confirmation.
- 4Teams continue to the next stop, using the route and clue flow planned for the group.
Good fits for AR scavenger hunts.
AR works best when the location itself matters. It is especially useful when a group needs a custom event route, a flexible setup, or a digital layer that can adapt to the venue.
Create a team-building route around buildings, courtyards, plazas, and gathering spaces.
Add app-supported clue moments without installing signs or managing physical props.
Guide teams through walkable streets, plazas, murals, waterfronts, and outdoor points of interest.
Turn a public route or branded activation into a guided interactive experience.
Build a retreat or conference scavenger hunt around the place where everyone is gathering.
Layer AR moments into an outdoor Mr Treasure Hunt route when the event plan calls for it.
Planning details
Questions teams usually ask before using AR clues.
These are the practical points that help the event run smoothly once teams arrive.
Does everyone need the app?
Not necessarily. For many events, at least one person per team can use the app, though more downloads can make the experience easier.
Does the event need permanent signs or props?
No. AR can place digital clue moments at real locations, which makes it helpful for temporary events, campuses, parks, and venues where signage is not ideal.
Can the route be custom?
Yes. Mr Treasure Hunt can design a custom route around your park, campus, hotel, neighborhood, downtown area, destination venue, or promotional area.
What should participants do before the event?
If your plan includes app-supported clues, download the free Mr Treasure Hunt AR Experience app and arrive with a charged phone.
Want AR clues built around your event location?
Tell us the location, group size, timing, and event goals. We can recommend whether AR belongs in your scavenger hunt and how it should support the route.