Augmented reality game from Google launched for iOS

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The popular Ingress game for Android devices has now quietly been released for Apple smartphones and tablets. Google has now quietly released that its augmented reality game called Ingress will now finally be available to owners of iPhones and iPads, as it has now been launched in an iOS compatible game app. The Android version of the mobile game has been openly available since December. Though that release of the augmented reality game had come with an official announcement and quite a bit of excitement – after its invitation only…

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Augmented reality transforms pizza boxes into video games

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A New Zealand pizza chain is giving customers the opportunity to use their mobile devices for an enhanced experience. Hell Pizza, a chain of restaurants in New Zealand, has decided that the box in which their product is delivered is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of what augmented reality has to offer, so that its customers can enjoy an enhanced experience through images that appear to come to life in a video game. To take advantage of this AR technology, customers simply need a smartphone and a pizza box.…

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Augmented reality game from Google to leave beta soon

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Ingress has already become very popular and it will experience its official launch on December 14. The augmented reality game called Ingress, from Niantic Labs at Google has been available to mobile gamers in the beta form for just over a year, during which time it has become quite popular. Last Friday, the game eliminated its requirement for invitations in order to add players. Now, Niantic has revealed that this augmented reality game will lose its beta status and move on as a full scale experience on December 14, 2013.…

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Augmented reality Halloween masks could change dress-up forever

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A team from the Artist and Polytechnic Institute of New York University has created 3D digital masks. Although Halloween costumes are already quite fun and creative, a team from New York University’s Artist and Polytechnic Institute (NYU-Poly) made up of grad students under augmented reality researcher Mark Skwarek has come together to create three dimensional digital masks this year. The virtual masks are a part of an AR tech based game that turns the world into a futuristic reality experience. The NYU-Poly instructor of integrated digital media, Skwarek, and a…

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Augmented reality game from Google, Ingress, headed to iOS

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Next year, the highly popular mobile gaming experience will be available to iPhone users. An augmented reality game from Google, called Ingress, will no longer be exclusive to Android device users, next year, say the latest reports, as a new version of the game will be released for iOS users. The game allows people from two teams try to capture various “portals” (physical locations). The purpose is to be able to capture this territory in the real world in order to be able to enclose the various areas and claim…

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