Augmented reality has been touted as technology that will revolutionize everything from shopping to surgery, but let's not forget how delightful overlaying the digital onto the real world can be from a pure entertainment perspective.
Chip Sineni of Trixi Studios, a VR/AR content house, has taken the iconic "Take On Me" music video from the 1980s and turned it into an augmented reality application for Apple ARKit.
As a refresher, ARKit is an augmented reality framework within iOS 11 that lets developers create AR apps and experiences for iPhone and iPad.
It's a unique approach to AR because it will work with existing Apple devices, making it potentially the biggest AR platform in the world when iOS 11 releases in the fall.
And it allows for awesome AR like this:
The video shows Sineni's unreleased ARKit application in action, and it's basically a mini-recreation of the music video from which it takes inspiration.
The viewer is beckoned into the comic book world of the lead singer, and within the space can see the real-world through a window pane. Objects and people in the real-world are also drawn into the AR realm, attesting to the tracking and sensing capabilities of ARKit on iOS devices.
The whole thing is well-done fun to watch, not to mention a great way to get Take On Me stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
It's exciting to see developers taking ARKit and running with it. In addition to Sineni's creation, we've been treated to teases of applications that let you drop furniture anywhere, measure a room, play Tic-Tac-Toe on the floor, enter inter-dimensional portals and a whole lot more.
With augmented reality reportedly a big feature of the iPhone 8, we'll likely see plenty more applications that take full advantage of ARKit between now and the phone's expected September release date.
Via TechCrunch
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