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    Draw an Oracle Card in Augmented Reality, Using Only Your Phone's Camera

    Orim's free AR selfie draw picks a card, locks it to your head in real time, and reveals your reading in an auto-recorded video you can share in one tap — no account, no signup.

    [IMAGE PLACEHOLDER: hero — a phone screen mid-draw, a glowing oracle card locked above someone's head, gold particles trailing off it]

    Card readings are usually something you look at. Orim's selfie draw is something that happens to you, on camera, in real time.

    Open orim.co on a phone, go to /selfie, and you're in it. No account, no payment. It's a free web page that runs entirely in your phone's browser.

    Choosing a deck

    You land on a deck picker first — Tarot, Heirs of the Dragon & Fairy, or the Purple Star oracle — and a choice between drawing one card or a three-card spread. Only after you pick a deck does the page ask for camera access, and it explains why before your phone's own permission prompt appears.

    [IMAGE PLACEHOLDER: the deck-picker screen — three deck backs shown as tappable thumbnails]

    Drawing the card

    Once the camera is live, a fan of cards breathes gently at the bottom of the screen, waiting for a tap.

    [IMAGE PLACEHOLDER: the card fan, idle-animated, at the bottom of the camera view]

    Tap one, and it lifts, glows, and flies up to your head — flipping face-up mid-flight — trailing a stream of gold dust. It locks on with a soft thump you can feel as well as hear, and a ring of light pulses outward.

    [IMAGE PLACEHOLDER: the card mid-flight toward the head, gold-dust trail visible]

    From that moment, the card tracks your head. Tilt, turn, tip your head back — the card follows, locked in place like it's actually resting there.

    The reveal

    To reveal your reading, tap the card, or open your mouth wide.

    A sparkle at your third eye lifts off your forehead and travels to the card, blooms into a halo of light, then vanishes — and that exact frame is automatically saved as your reading's photo.

    [IMAGE PLACEHOLDER: the halo-bloom moment — the sparkle blooming into light over the locked card]

    Underneath, your reading appears — first as large words that build near your chin, one at a time with a chime, then settling into a compact line at the bottom of the screen. A full written reading follows below the camera view: the card's name, its yes-or-no verdict, and what it says about love, career, and money.

    [IMAGE PLACEHOLDER: the words-appearing moment, large serif type building near the chin]

    What's actually happening on screen

    None of this uses a pre-built AR filter kit. It's a from-scratch effects system, running on nothing but your phone's browser:

    • Face tracking follows seven points on your face — eyes, nose, cheeks, forehead, chin — to keep the card locked to your head as you move, tilt, and turn.
    • A skin-smoothing pass runs on your live camera feed the entire time, the same kind of effect a beauty-mode camera app uses.
    • An optional night-sky background can replace the room behind you, using the same technology that lets video-call apps blur your background — except here it swaps it for stars.
    • Every chime and thump is synthesized on the spot — there are no sound files anywhere in this feature, just tones generated in the moment.

    [IMAGE PLACEHOLDER: split-screen or before/after showing the beauty pass and night-sky background toggle]

    It records itself

    You don't press record. The moment you pick a card, a video starts capturing everything on screen, and it stops automatically about a second and a half after your reading finishes revealing.

    When you're done, one "Share" button hands your phone's own share menu the best version available — the full video if it recorded, or the halo-peak photo if it didn't — ready to post anywhere straight from your phone.

    [IMAGE PLACEHOLDER: the share screen — the recorded clip's final frame with a native phone share sheet open beneath it]

    A three-card spread, if you want more

    Prefer more than one card? Draw three instead of one, and each card docks to its own place — one for love, one for career, one for money — before a single combined reading appears for all three.

    [IMAGE PLACEHOLDER: three-card spread mode, three cards docked along the right edge]


    Shot list:

    1. Hero: phone screen, card locked above a head, gold particles
    2. Deck-picker screen
    3. Card fan, idle animation
    4. Card mid-flight to the head, gold trail
    5. Halo-bloom reveal moment
    6. Words building near the chin
    7. Beauty pass / night-sky background comparison
    8. Share screen with native share sheet
    9. Three-card spread mode