So today, we really wanted to encourage you to try – or if you have already, to give an even closer look at – WebAR, and specifically 8th Wall, a platform allowing you to both build and host your AR experiences directly from a web browser. They have just published 8cademy, a self-paced, free online […]

Showcase Your Culture Workshop #1: Scripting with Beth Wickerson In this tutorial, Beth will explain how she used script to come up with one of her recent AR games – Gem Smash World. And just to help you with creating an interactive World AR effect, she turned her effect from selfie to the rear view […]

We are excited to share that AR Effect House software is now supported on Windows! 💛 The aim is to invite more of the world’s creative Community to imagine and create effects for TikTok! Creators building Effects in Windows will have access to all the same Effect House experiences that our Community knows and loves. […]

Today we invite you to explore the possibilities of Templates with Future House Studios, an award-winning Metaverse creation company. 👾🌍 Their dream team, consisting of experienced artists and developers, creates movies, games, virtual entertainment, VR & AR experiences and incredible animation. Their mission is to help brands tell their stories in an unforgettable way – […]

It’s time to shower you with Lightship tips and tricks! What Templates to use, how they should be applied – Trigger will help you get rid of any doubts and smooth out your AR experience for our Templates Challenge. 🚀 Let the Lightship masters guide you through their project ! ⚡️ PGA Jr. Safari Par-Tee […]

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Keanu Christmas Your AR creation doesn’t need to be super complicated with a whole multiplayer experience to be able to use one of the Lightship templates effectively – it can just be finding a novel, different, curious use for the technique. Have fun with it! MPAR’s first hackathon entry was for a Keanu Reeves […]

Templates are pre-developed projects that simplify the creation of your AR experiences by automating different ARDK features. This way you can focus less on how the technology works and more on building your vision. ➡️ By the end of this tutorial you’ll be able to install the Lightship Hub in Lightship’s ARDK in Unity, choose […]

Cool, so what can I do with the Lightship ARDK? Niantic’s Lightship ARDK is built around the Unity game engine platform, and provides tools for a variety of augmented reality and game development features. Leverage the semantic segmentation tools to easily differentiate the sky from the ground from the buildings, and gain an understanding of […]

The creator behind GO’s success is Niantic, a company with a rich history in mapping and planet-scale AR. Niantic CEO John Hanke initially created Keyhole, a first-of-its-kind product that allowed users to zoom into 3D maps of the planet. In 2004, Google acquired Keyhole and renamed it Google Earth. Over the next few years, that […]

And since the whole idea of the metaverse is based on translating actual reality into a virtual one, using mostly 3D assets and simultaneously connecting it with our IRL via Augmented Reality, the Creators Community is meant to play a key role at the new digital construction site. So one of the first steps announced […]