Tag: #AR

Earlier this week, we told you about the new Star Wars augmented reality collaboration with Nissan that will bring the famed science-fiction franchise to auto showrooms, and now we can show you what it looks like. The AR experience, called “See the Unseen,” which is only available at Nissan showrooms, allows you to transform a...

Now that the holiday season has officially kicked off, Office Depot has updated its popular Elf Yourself app with a few new augmented reality options. But you’d be excused if you weren’t overly thrilled with the implementation. For those who are unfamiliar with the app, Elf Yourself takes photos of you, your friends, your family,...

If you’ve ever wanted to hang out with a flying unicorn that sounds like actor/comedian Patton Oswalt, get ready to get Happy! NBC Universal Media’s new augmented reality mobile app promotes the new series “Happy!” on the SYFY channel. The app brings to life the title character, a winged unicorn voiced by Patton Oswalt. Happy...

It appears that the new AR app from LEGO is inching closer to release. LEGO had the unique distinction of being featured on-stage by both Apple and Google to show-off the capabilities ARKit and ARCore, respectively. While the latter is still in a preview and available to only a handful of models, the former is...

With the advent of ARKit, apps that can place virtual furniture in a real room have become nearly a universal practice for furniture retailers, with Pottery Barn being the latest to join the fray. While it might seem as though Pottery Barn is playing catch-up with the likes of IKEA, Amazon, and Houzz, but Pottery...

Thanks to Metaverse, it has never been this easy to create your own AR game. The platform gives users a web-based tool for building interactive AR experiences, with no coding knowledge necessary. Via a link or QR code, users can then share their project with others, who can view in AR through the Metaverse browser...

On Wednesday, Snap, Inc. unveiled a revamp of its Snapchat app that draws a hard line between content from your friends and content from professional media organizations. However, the new changes, teased during the company’s recent third quarter financial results, won’t impact the app’s camera and augmented reality effects, which will remain at the center...

The Star Wars saga may have occurred a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but Nissan is using a futuristic technology to bring stormtroopers and droids into its dealerships. As part of its promotional tie-in with the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi film, Nissan dealerships across the US will receive unspecified...

Introduced along with the iPhone X, Animoji are animated characters, mostly animals, that are rendered from the user’s facial expressions, using the device’s TrueDepth camera to track the user’s facial movements. The first viral phenomenon to emerge from the launch of the iPhone X is the action known as Animoji Karaoke. Purportedly kicked off by...