Canterbury spin-out Puteko is taking home the award for its augmented reality colouring-in app.

University of Canterbury Christ Church spin-out Puteko has won an Auggie, awarded for Best App and one of ten awards given out during this year’s Augmented World Expo in California.

Auggie awards celebrate augmented reality and wearable technologies, films, tools and hardware. They were launched in 2010. As part of the award, Puteko won a one-year licence for Daqri 4D Studio, an augmented reality content creation tool.

The app brings children’s colouring to life using augmented reality: users print out the…