Who needs to hunt for Pokémon when you can hunt for actual dinosaurs? A new augmented reality game in the vein of “Pokémon Go” is launching Tuesday as inspired by “Jurassic World Dominion.”
The app, titled “Dinotracker Ar,” gives users the chance to discover, track and interact with life-size dinosaurs viewable through Ar in your real-life environments. And compared to something like “Pokémon Go” and other similar apps, the augmented reality on display looks fairly sophisticated.
In order to interact with the 10 different dinosaurs created for the app through Ar, you have to be within the proper setting, be it looking at the ground, sky or trees, and have access to a good amount of space outdoors. But the illusion is pretty neat if you can get the setting right, such that a pteranodon will actually fly seamlessly between tree lines or that you can with hand tracking tools actually...
The app, titled “Dinotracker Ar,” gives users the chance to discover, track and interact with life-size dinosaurs viewable through Ar in your real-life environments. And compared to something like “Pokémon Go” and other similar apps, the augmented reality on display looks fairly sophisticated.
In order to interact with the 10 different dinosaurs created for the app through Ar, you have to be within the proper setting, be it looking at the ground, sky or trees, and have access to a good amount of space outdoors. But the illusion is pretty neat if you can get the setting right, such that a pteranodon will actually fly seamlessly between tree lines or that you can with hand tracking tools actually...
- 8/16/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Sam Raimi's classic The Evil Dead has appeared on numerous video game consoles over the years with mixed results to say the very least. Still, someone is bound to get an interactive version of this lovable cult gore-fest right. Could this be it?
According to The Hollywood Reporter Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's the Evil Dead is getting a new life in the form of an iPhone and iPad game that will bring the gore and campy humor of the cult classic film into the digital age.
Ghost House Pictures has partnered with Trigger Apps, part of digital marketing firm Trigger, to launch a paid iPhone and iPad game app for the film from the production label's co-founders. It is one of the early attempts at keeping fans in touch with and making additional revenue off classic movies, which some predict will become a growing business. It also...
According to The Hollywood Reporter Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's the Evil Dead is getting a new life in the form of an iPhone and iPad game that will bring the gore and campy humor of the cult classic film into the digital age.
Ghost House Pictures has partnered with Trigger Apps, part of digital marketing firm Trigger, to launch a paid iPhone and iPad game app for the film from the production label's co-founders. It is one of the early attempts at keeping fans in touch with and making additional revenue off classic movies, which some predict will become a growing business. It also...
- 4/6/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The Evil Dead has found it's way into the digital age and will soon posses our iPhones and iPads, wreaking havoc on our minds. The Evil Dead game app will be an "action-heavy 3D shooter game that allows players to take control of Bruce Campbell's character Ash to lead his group of friends to safety while fighting off evil zombies." It will be available in the coming weeks for $2.99 for the iPhone and $4.99 for the iPad once it's approved by Apple.
One of the goals of this is to reconnect fans to the movie, and also help build a new fan base for those that may not be familiar with Evil Dead. Oh yeah, and of course they are looking to make more money off the franchise.
The game will have more than 30 levels are spread over two chapters. The first follows the film's story line, while the second...
One of the goals of this is to reconnect fans to the movie, and also help build a new fan base for those that may not be familiar with Evil Dead. Oh yeah, and of course they are looking to make more money off the franchise.
The game will have more than 30 levels are spread over two chapters. The first follows the film's story line, while the second...
- 4/6/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Snowy greetings from Park City, Utah, home of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival! This year, in addition to introducing the world to many of the independent films we'll be talking about for the next 12 months, Sundance embraced new media. Through official programs and partnerships as well as non-official events, the possibilities and promise of the Internets as a creative and distribution medium was the subject of much discussion. On Friday, January 22nd, the fest kicked off with Digital Dive, an all-day, immersive event aimed at upping the digital media literacy of attending filmmakers. Jigsaw Global produced the event in tandem with the Festival. Panels were held at the New Frontier on Main (Nfom), the home venue for the New Frontier strand of the fest, which focuses on experimental work that "explores the limits of traditional aesthetics and the narrative structure of filmmaking." In other words, the section features lots of cool,...
- 2/1/2010
- by Tamara Krinsky
- Tubefilter.com
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