In 2020, together with the studio leads Karen ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato and students, Appearition developed a bespoke Augmented Reality app to enable students to create new worlds to be explored through AR technologies. Shortly after the studio began, it was disrupted by COVID-19 quarantine measures, and for the remainder of the course, students and teachers continued working together across virtual spaces. Appearition developed the custom-built mobile application and the Studio Leads and students created speculative worlds through AR. The final publication AR u ready? comprises the ‘target’ images that trigger the viewer’s Augmented Reality experience. AR u ready? Showcases the students’ original research and invites the reader to explore their imagined worlds. These works range from the comforting and hopeful, to the dystopic, and together contribute a contemporary survey of virtual, social, psychological and whimsical world-building.