After launching its first augmented reality title for Angry Birds on the Magic Leap One, Rovio has doubled back to the platform that made its franchise famous. That’s right, the puzzle game is coming back to iPhones and iPads in Angry Birds: Isle of Pigs, leveraging the surface detection capabilities of ARKit to bring the...
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Magic Leap & Weta Workshop Preview Multiplayer Mode for Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders at GDC
Visitors to the Unity booth at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco will get a special augmented reality treat courtesy of Magic Leap and Weta Workshop. On Monday, after alluding to the reveal in a blog post last week, Magic Leap revealed Grordbattle, a multiplayer extension of Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders that turns one to...
Miller Lite & Trigger Global Turn St. Patrick’s Day into an Augmented Reality Celebration
Every year, fans of Irish culture, as well as those looking to celebrate their own culture, come together on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. Although beer isn’t an official component of the day, many often raise a glass of brew to commemorate the occasion, and this year that activity was given a bit of a...
Adventurous taps live actors and AR to take families on high-tech scavenger hunts
Augmented reality looked like it was supposed to a ubiquitous success; Apple and Google and Facebook seemed to say so. But things are taking a bit of time to get kicked off, so the startups in the space are having to get real weird with it. Adventurous is an augmented reality scavenger hunt geared toward...
Puppetoon Promises to Give Your iPhone the Freedom to Create Augmented Reality Animations
Current-generation mobile augmented reality apps offer users numerous opportunities to punch up photos and videos with 3D content, but there’s surprisingly few options for users to express themselves using virtual characters. A new app called Puppetoon from indie developer Cuteness Technology aims to change that. The app’s value proposition is simple: make AR puppet videos....
Spatiate Brings Multi-User Augmented Reality Painting to Magic Leap One
While painting in augmented reality is not a groundbreaking pursuit, the ability for Magic Leap One, iPhone and iPad, and Android users to collaborate remotely on virtual artwork would be. That is what Across Realities is aiming to do with Spatiate, an app that launched on Thursday through Magic Leap World for $9.99. And soon,...
Hands-On: Hands-On with Google Maps Walking AR Navigation Experiment, a Peek into Our Smartglasses Future
While Google isn’t ready to commit to a wide release of the AR walking navigation mode for Google Maps, the company has begun testing the feature with members of its Local Guides crowdsourcing community. As a result, I’ve had the opportunity to test an alpha build of the feature in the real world (and log...
Hands-On: Hands-On with the HoloLens 2, the New Best Augmented Reality Experience You Can Get
In the last couple of days there’s been a lot of speculation about the powers of Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, but few have had a chance to get their hands on one to see if the company’s claims live up to what HoloLens inventor Alex Kipman showed off on stage. Nevertheless, amid this week’s massive crowds...
Blind users can now explore photos by touch with Microsoft’s Seeing AI
Microsoft’s Seeing AI is an app that lets blind and limited-vision folks convert visual data into audio feedback, and it just got a useful new feature. Users can now use touch to explore the objects and people in photos. It’s powered by machine learning, of course, specifically object and scene recognition. All you need to...
Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 Team Answers More Questions About Biometric Security, Audio, & Hand Tracking
Now that the dust has finally settled on Microsoft’s big HoloLens 2 announcement, the company is circling back to offer more granular detail on some aspects of the device we still don’t know about. Aside from making some team members accessible for interviews, the company has also launched a video streaming series that delves into...