[ad_1] The game is a 3D jigsaw puzzle that sends players to world-famous monuments around the globe. Users watch landmarks, like the Statue of Liberty and the Taj Mahal, crumble. Then they must piece them back together. This is just the first of several games to come out of ICP, and Magic Leap says we […]
Category: Ar
Facebook’s prototype VR bangle squeezes and vibrates your wrists
[ad_1] As explained by UploadVR, the idea is that you’d wear one Tasbi unit on each wrist, letting you get a sensation when you pick up objects, push buttons or touch a surface. Apparently, even though your fingers aren’t touching anything, Tasbi is smart enough to make you think you are. Sadly, Tasbi doesn’t do […]
The ‘Minecraft Earth’ beta begins its global takeover this month
[ad_1] The iOS-first launch isn’t surprising after we got our first peek at live gameplay during WWDC last month. While this new trailer has a lot of info on how you’ll play the game, interested players may want to revisit the Apple demo to get more feel for what it will be like to share […]
YouTube uses AR to let you try on makeup during tutorials
[ad_1] The tool creates a split screen, and plays YouTube content on the top half. It uses front-facing cameras to capture users and AR filters to apply virtual makeup samples in the lower screen. With the help of machine learning, the tool works on a full range of skin tones, and Google has already demoed […]
Fox Sports created a USWNT Snapchat AR lens for the World Cup
[ad_1] Fox Sports created an AR Snapchat lens for Snap, which currently features a virtual version of Morgan along with a reminder of the team’s next group-stage game against Chile on Sunday. Fox Sports plans to update the lens for each USWNT game throughout the tournament. The broadcaster created 3D scans of each US player […]
Facebook researchers are building virtual spaces to improve AI and AR
[ad_1] Facebook Reality Labs (which up until last year was Oculus Research) created a new open platform for embodied AI research called AI Habitat, along with a dataset of photorealistic sample spaces it’s calling Replica. Both Habitat and Replica are now available for researchers to download on Github. With these tools, researchers can train AI […]
Google puts augmented reality animals in its Search app
[ad_1] What’s black and white and AR all over? A giant panda in Search. pic.twitter.com/P4M2ki7uMe— Google (@Google) May 31, 2019 The card also has a “View in your space” button that places an animated version of that animal in the environment you’re in. You can move them around and resize them — they even come […]
Augmented reality can change your behavior in the real world
[ad_1] Using 218 participants and a pair of AR goggles, researchers led by Professor Jeremy Bailenson conducted three experiments. The first showed a realistic 3D person called Chris sitting on a real chair in the room (AR layers digital images over the physical world, rather than creating a whole new world like VR). Participants had […]
Nike’s latest Snapchat Lens shows support for USWNT
[ad_1] With the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup drawing closer, fans of the US Soccer Women’s National Team have one more way to show their support. The creatives at Nike have put together an AR Lens that slaps a team jersey on you, and of course links to Nike.com for a quick purchase. The USWNT […]
An AR film explores the worst tech companies could do with your face
[ad_1] In the festival’s Arcade section, which is full of eye-catching installations and people wearing headsets, Stealing ur feelings is easy to miss. It consists simply of a 46-inch display mounted onto a pillar in the middle of the aisle separating the exhibits in the long rectangular room. There’s a camera above the screen and […]