Unity Technologies, the highly valued startup behind one of the most popular game development tools, lost its CFO Mike Foley last week, Business Insider (paywalled) reported. A company spokesperson confirmed the CFO’s departure, saying it was a “friendly and mutual decision between both parties,” while also noting that the company was searching for a replacement...
The latest sponsored augmented reality experience on Snapchat from a movie studio might be its scariest — and perhaps most popular — yet. The Sponsored Lens, purchased by Warner Bros. to promote the new The Nun horror movie, uses background segmentation to provide a mostly darkened front-facing camera view. Users are asked to blow out...
Augmented reality app developer Laan Labs has shared a preview of a beta app that achieves 3D scanning with just an iPhone and produces highly-detailed models for sharing with others. But it might be a while before we see it in the App Store. According to a tweet from the company, the prototype app uses...
Not content to let NFL’s official pizza sponsor corner the market for feeding football fans, 7-Eleven has taken a page out of Pizza Hut’s playbook with a promotional augmented reality game. Available now through Dec. 31 in the 7-Eleven mobile app for iOS and Android, users can play an augmented reality football mini-game to test...
While we’ve seen Snapchat apply sky segmentation to AR content, the makers of the Blue Sky Paint app have applied similar capabilities to create and share airborne art. Published by AR developer Kevaid and available now on the App Store, Blue Sky Paint is similar to Similar to Google’s Just a Line app, where users...
The critics of Magic Leap have been circling for a couple of weeks now, but that isn’t stopping the company from pushing forward with major new partnerships. The latest Magic Leap tie-up is with none other than motion capture actor Andy Serkis and his UK-based The Imaginarium Studios. “In using performance capture, we have the...
Traditional media institution The New York Times continues to break new ground in its augmented reality news coverage, this time with a 3D volumetric capture of model Ashley Graham. The feature, part of the publication’s coverage of New York Fashion Week, serves to shine a light on the issue of body diversity and image in...
After parting ways with Papa John’s, the National Football League has drafted Pizza Hut as its official pizza purveyor, and the company has hit the field with an augmented reality game to entertain hungry football fans. After scanning specially marked pizza boxes using the Beanbag Blitz mobile app, customers can unlock a virtual game of...
A new app for iPhones and iPads gives developers a sandbox for testing their AR experiences and sharing them with the world. Available now in the iOS App Store, wiARframe, a free app with no in-app purchases, enables developers to create their content via a web-based tool designed to strip away the need for coding...
On Friday, at IFA 2018 in Berlin, Samsung invited attendees into the residence of Family Guy’s Griffin family to learn all about its “smart home” products via augmented reality. “If Peter Griffin can have a smart home, then everyone can,” said Samsung via its webpage for the “Doorways” experience (translated via Google Translate). “We partnered...
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