The creators of ePlay’s forthcoming augmented reality game are taking players’ headshots and molding them onto 3D models to create life-size avatars that will be dispersed throughout streets, shops and cities. Hold your phone up to see Stephen Curry and higher still to see the much taller LeBron James, or at least a reasonable digital […]
Imagine running alongside the cascading waterfalls and granite rocks of Yosemite Valley. Perhaps you want to visualize the route before you go, or relive it after the fact. A new augmented reality experience will recreate the route in a digital 3D map for you to explore. Putting Apple’s new augmented reality developers kit, ARKit, to […]
It’s getting easier to find and meet athletes these days thanks to athlete-centric platforms like Instagram, Facebook Live and Snapchat. But for those who might be half a world away from their favorite teams and players, German football club Bayern Munich has a solution that takes advantage of a different type of technology. Bayern Munich […]
Just in time for the start of the regular season, the NBA became the first U.S. sports league to launch an augmented reality game on Monday with an app that enables fans to play virtual pop-a-shot. NBA AR, which is available for free in the App Store, will have fans flicking their iPhones in order […]
SAN FRANCISCO — To the naked eye, nothing but green acreage surrounded San Francisco Giants outfielders Denard Span and Jarrett Parker. Through the lens of an iPad bearing baseball’s new augmented reality feature, however, the image changed: rings surrounded each player, indicating their usual defensive range. (Span’s circle, Giants fans would agree, was appropriately small.) […]
