New guns in town: 5 interesting AR projects
AR is a new indie. Remember those days, when everything was in the beginning, all the people in industry like each other, share ideas? Miss that? We too. Now the AR community brings back that spirit of old good days, and we are so happy about it. So we decided to inform you about new interesting AR projects, and that’s our the first five.
- AR Measure App Demo
All of us periodically encounter the need to measure something — do we do repairs or choose a case for a smartphone. But not always at the right time at hand is a ruler, especially if such a need arises outside the home. Previously, some people used a picture of the ruler on the screen while preserving real scales, but ARKit can be much larger and more convenient at the same time. A ruler that is always with you and apart from a distance can measure and preserve different facets, and even the square is not the future. All ingenious is simple — and due to its simplicity, the AR line takes the first place in the hit parade of the most popular ARKit applications.
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2. Augmented Reality’s A-ha video
The famous video “Take On Me” by Norwegian band A-ha gained its second birth 33 years after the recording of the hit. Then, in 1985, the video clip was shot using the animation technique of rotoscoping — combining video and animation frames. It was a real technological breakthrough for those time, and that’s why he so fell in love with millions of spectators.
Now the story repeats — a new technological breakthrough, so successfully suited to the old concept, again blew up the chart and in record time climbed to the second place of the hit parade. The fastest story of the growth of views — in just one month the video scored indicators that others reach in 2–3 months. The fundamental point of success, we believe, is the opportunity to feel in the shoes of the favorite heroes from comics and, of course, the virality even among the audience that is far from AR / VR in particular and technologies in general.
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3. Apple ArKit Augmented Reality MINECRAFT
Release a prototype game on the popular brand is always a good move. So in this case, the word “MINECRAFT” in the title threw this video to the top. The author frankly does not pretend to fully re-release the game in AR and positions this prototype as an amateur project, which once again shows the quality of tracking in ARKit. Nevertheless, it seems that users liked the idea of playing in the favorite pixel sandbox in the Augmented Reality mode, which means there are all chances that the official right-owner will pay attention to this and we will soon actually see the real MINECRAFT AR. Or not.
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4. ARKit Inter-dimensional Portal
Among the entertainment applications, made by ARKit, there is a whole separate segment called “Portals”. Portals represent a door to a level of a panoramic image or video, so it creates a kind of VR effect — to admit, it looks almost always extremely useful. At the same time, in the implementation of such a “Portal” there is nothing complicated, which is why there are so many and different ones — perhaps, at the moment it is the most common type of ARKit applications. Specifically, this portal is a kind of king of all other portals. Why? Because he was the first with such good quality of performance. Perhaps, it is because of its name “ARKit Inter-dimensional Portal” that all other similar prototypes began to be called people “portals”.
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5. Wingnut AR Unreal Engine Demo on iOS
The popularity of this video is probably due to three factors: the fact that this is an official presentation of the ARKit capabilities at the WWDC 2017 conference, that it is a demo version of the Unreal Engine, and the fact that Peter Jackson did it himself. All this, of course, added to his fame and thereby drove decently traffic. What do we have inside? A stable picture under ideal conditions, beautiful FX explosions, spaceships, a little man falls off the table — everything that modern geeks like.
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That’s all for today, but we’ll continue to introduce you with new interesting AR projects.
