On this, the most cherished day for Star Wars fans, May the fourth, Lenovo has released a significant new update to its Star Wars: Jedi Challenges app: real person versus person lightsaber battles. Now, any two users who both have the Lenovo Mirage Jedi Challenges system and the updated app (iOS and Android) can fight...
The crime procedural show is the perhaps the most direct path to the average TV viewer’s heart. Could the same hold true for augmented reality games? Exhibit A: Forensic Detective: Inside the Crime Scene, a new, iOS-only mobile game for iPhones and iPads, that will be available in the App Store on May 31 (although...
Holding phone or tablets to see augmented reality applications is painfull and doesn’t help too much AR to become mainstream. Before the dedicated glasses reach the mass market, some solutions exist. Like #HTC Vive pro which allows AR experience (I didn’t try this), or Samsung’s phonecast VR. Hope Google or anyone else will follow this...
Like Marvel’s Avengers, Facebook’s Camera AR platform now has a number of new AR superpowers at its disposal, so it is fitting that Earth’s Mightiest Heroes have the distinction of displaying them. Available now in via Facebook on iOS and Android, the Avengers: Infinity War AR effects, represented by a cartoon Iron Man avatar, gives...
We watched the first piece of public-facing content Magic Leap has released so you don’t have to, and, well, you didn’t miss much. To be fair, the company’s new video show, called Magic Leap Live, isn’t designed to entertain, rather it’s meant to educate and inform developers who may be interested in developing for the...
During Snap Inc.’s quarterly earnings report, released on Tuesday, the company disclosed that it snagged a revenue total of $230.8 million for the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 54% compared to last year, largely fueled by its augmented reality offerings and other advertising products. While Snapchat faced a backlash as a result of...
In the latest installment in its burgeoning augmented reality journalism practice, The New York Times is bringing its readers closer to Mars and NASA’s latest spacecraft set to travel to the red planet. When reading the article through the NY Times app for iOS or Android on devices running ARKit or ARCore, users see two...
On Tuesday, on the one-year anniversary of the announcement of its AR Camera platform, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg revealed at the company’s F8 developers conference that the platform will be extended to the company’s Instagram and Messenger apps. Users of the Instagram app on iOS and Android will be able dress up their...
The AREA is the only global, membership-funded non-profit alliance dedicated to helping accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Augmented Reality worldwide.. As such, we believe our value is greatly enhanced as our membership becomes more diverse by industry and geography. To that end, the AREA is taking steps to expand its geographical reach and representation...
Last week, we told you about Microsoft’s Alex Kipman and his nomination for the annual European Inventor Award, presented by the European Patent Office (EPO). And while that’s big news in and of itself, it turns out we overlooked a very important detail buried in the EPO’s video presentation. What was it? Only one of...
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