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...
The new members come from every corner of the AR ecosystem, including app developers, interaction technology providers, manufacturing solutions providers, AR wearables manufacturers, and vertical industry solutions providers. New Contributing Members include Crunchfish, Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), Mobiliya, Proceedix, and RealWear. The AREA has also welcomed four members in its recently-announced Startup level of membership:...
If you’re a regular reader of Next Reality, you’re more likely to spread the joy of augmented reality than most others. But it can be difficult to introduce newbies into the AR fold if you don’t give them exactly the right starting point in terms ease-of-use and affordability. But fear not, oh gift-giving AR pioneer,...
Two characters from the popular sci-fi animated comedy “Rick and Morty” have already made their way into augmented reality courtesy of ARKit experiments. Now, it’s possible to become one of them on the iPhone X. Developer Michael Bramiage has created an Animoji-style version of Rick Sanchez. While he has to supply his own burps and...
An AR/VR developer has managed to use the iPhone X to transport players into an emulation of the classic ’90s video game Star Fox as the game’s antagonist. The demo comes courtesy of developer Rigel Benton, who concocted the revision of the Super Nintendo classic as part of VR Austin Jam 2017. Using the iPhone...
Snapchat has broken new ground in its augmented reality advertising efforts, as BMW has opted for a Sponsored Lens to show-off its new X2 model in AR. Users who opt in to the experience via ads running between user or publisher stories (or scan the corresponding Snapcode) can place a 3D model of the sedan...
Just days after we found out that Apple is working on its own augmented reality headset, we now learn that the company is accelerating its AR headset efforts with the acquisition of Montreal-based hardware maker Vrvana. As Techcrunch reported on Tuesday, Nov. 21, Apple paid about $30 million to bring the company and its team...
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