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Fitness AR’s Digital 3D Map Helps Runners, Cyclists Visualize Routes

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 […]

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Take Augmented Reality Pics With Bayern Munich’s Robben And Neuer

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 […]

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NBA Fans At Arenas Can Get To Know A 3D Foam Finger On Snapchat

The NBA has teamed up with Snapchat this season to bring fans attending games a 3D Foam Finger in augmented reality. It’s a location-specific World Lens experience so that in and around NBA arenas, fans can place the home team’s 3D Foam Fingers into their photos and videos. And with augmented reality, it’s such a […]

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San Jose Sharks Become First NHL Team To Launch Oculus VR App

NEW YORK — The San Jose Sharks are the first NHL team to have its own Oculus Gear VR application. Thanks to the immersive media platform Zeality, the team can use the app to deliver virtual reality, 360-degree videos and photos to fans everywhere and take them right up against the glass at the Shark […]

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