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iPhone 6S bug in iOS 9 throws off augmented reality performance

10/02/201509/30/2015 Julie Campbell

A reported glitch in the operating system’s compass/gyroscope is impacting AR apps. A potential bug has been discovered in the most recent release of the Apple operating system, iOS 9, which seems to be affecting certain mobile apps that run on the brand new iPhone 6S, such as those that are based on augmented reality, as well as others that use compass and gyroscope data. This has had an impact on some of the central elements of these mobile apps and has made several features unusable. A number of different…

Augmented reality baseball app shown off by Joe Girardi

08/11/201508/08/2015 Julie Campbell

The manager of the Yankees demonstrated his new mobile game, Portalball. Joe Girardi, the New York Yankee’s manager, typically makes headlines for guiding his team to hold the first place, but recently he was in the spotlight as he showed off his new augmented reality science-fiction baseball game app, called Portalball. This mobile game is available for free for users of iOS and Android based devices and features in-app purchasing. The application was launched mobile app development company Appetizer Mobile. It provides the user with the ability to use the…

Google apologizes for augmented reality game Nazi concentration camps

07/06/201507/04/2015 Julie Campbell

The tech giant has apologized for featuring the locations as a part of its Ingress mobile app. Niantic Labs, the in-house startup at Google has now released an apology after it featured Nazi concentration camps as a part of the augmented reality game for which it is best known, Ingress. The AR tech based game allows players to decide to join either the Enlightened or the Resistance teams. From there, the players of the augmented reality game can use their smartphones to be able to track down “exotic matter” that…

Blippar augmented reality mobile app searches the internet with a camera

03/20/201503/18/2015 Julie Campbell

Snap Shot of Blippar.com augmented reality

Instead of typing in search terms, users simply need to aim their smartphones at whatever they want. The makers of the Blippar augmented reality app are hoping that images truly will speak louder than words, as they have taken the idea of Googling something and have turned it into a form of search that can be conducted through a smartphone camera. The company has the largest platform for AR and image recognition in the world and has now re-launched their app. The re-launched augmented reality app has been designed to…

Augmented reality art tour set off by Pfister

10/17/201410/15/2014 L. Green

The hotel’s collection of Victorian art is going to be featured in this unique and high tech way. The Pfister Hotel has now announced its intentions to become the first hotel in the United States that will be showing off its Victorian art collection through the launch of an augmented reality art tour. By using AR technology, it helps to enhance the experience of the artworks on their own with additional media. In this specific circumstance, the augmented reality allows the viewer to see a live view of the various…