“Digital is not that good as my printed comic book’, - you might say if you haven’t tried Madefire’s digital interactive comics.

They are adopting the original comic books into digital formats as well as creating new stories in a new immersive way. All of the company’s comics are interactive, you can walk through the story, experience it as a part of your world.

Madefire has partnered with Magic Leap to experience their vision of comic books, i.e. motion books in augmented reality. The pages are floating in the space, you can walk through a pop-up book suspended in the space wherever you want, you can make transitions between pages, scale it, and add sound effects.

Watch the interview with a co-founder to learn more about the process of making interactive comics, tools that you need for it, and the story of the company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hkfd7jklA

On February 14th we had 30 wonderful digital land plots in Paris – the capital of romance!
   
Moreover, every third land plot was lucky as it went with one more asset in Paris FOR FREE!

Here's the result of the Valentine's Day lottery - 10 lucky land plots 🎉🎉🎉

https://youtu.be/PNxr92Map9E

Arcona's Weekly Dose of AR:

💡In the 4th episode, we will talk about AR in Art and AR as a new way of navigation in cities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix9riFJmVXY

Medivis (a New York-based AR company) is pioneering the future of advanced visualization for surgery.

👨‍⚕️Now doctors can do pre-surgical planning by having 3D planning beforehand and know exactly how best to approach an operation.

The company founders were both senior residents at NYU Medical Center and now they have a partnership with Dell and Microsoft to supply hardware and to make their big plan come true.

👀 Read the story about this company that already has performed 15 surgeries in consultation with the company’s technology:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/13/medivis-has-launched-its-augmented-reality-platform-for-surgical-planning/

Here’s our special raffle devoted to Valentine’s day: we represent to your attention 30 wonderful land plots in Paris – the capital of romance!
   
Moreover, every third land plot is lucky as it’ll go with one more asset in Paris FOR FREE! The raffle is all random as usual.

Check what’s up on the Arcona Marketplace and win a beautiful gift for your Valentine or for your loved self! 💑

https://marketplace.arcona.io/en

Quality AR apps that you can use and have fun. Games and new ways of AR games and amazing gaming opportunities.

“There is plenty of fish in the sea”. You want to say when you open Google Play or Play Store while fishing for AR apps. Unfortunately, plenty of them is of questionable quality while some others are quite enjoyable to use and can bring value.
Let’s have a look at them.
1️⃣
Did you like playing tic-tac-toe or hangman when you were at school? Want to kill some time and play once again by just drawing these lines in the air?
With the app Just a Line you can do it! This app even makes you super eco-friendly, because you won’t be using any paper. And it also has shared AR so you can play with your friend.
2️⃣
If you like staring at the night sky and can’t tell what stars and constellations are above you, the app Sky Guide will help you with that.  Just imagine how romantic you can be telling your girlfriend or boyfriend the names of the stars and their location next time you go outdoors.
3️⃣
Do you travel a lot and faced the truth that English won’t help you in any part of the world? Did you feel that you were screwed when you opened a menu without pictures in any Asian country and can’t even pronounce a word?
Google comes to the rescue!
And you won’t need to type these crazy new characters into your phone and then ask Google to translate it. No. Just take a photo of the text and Google Translate will do the job for you.
4️⃣
If you have a new apartment, you probably need to make everything right and spend some time measuring rooms. The app MagicPlan can do it for you. Just scan the room with the phone camera and voila - you already have a floor plan and you can jump into designing.
5️⃣
And if you already have the apartment, but just want to make some changes in the furniture and thinking that this adorable armchair in the Ikea’s catalog will be a perfect fit.
You go to the store, spend some great time there, test out every coach, blanket, wardrobe, finally get the armchair you were aiming at (and of course a lot of other stuff - as nobody leaves Ikea with just one thing! Mission impossible!), get your lovely armchair to its new home and it doesn’t fit or match your old furniture. Oh no!😱
To avoid such problems just download Ikea’s AR app that has their furniture that you can virtually test in your apartment. Once you are done, just order online - very simple!
6️⃣
Did you dream of becoming Indiana Jones and travel the world to find treasures?
With the AR app Civilizations, your childhood memory of becoming an archeologist can come true! No need to risk your life when you can see historical artifacts from around the world in great quality right from your phone.
7️⃣
Do you sometimes feel so mad that you want to kill someone? Just breathe in and breathe out, and download an app called Zombies Go! That’s a great shooter and you can blast them to hell without feeling guilty because they’re zombies ✌️

A review was based on the article: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/great-ar-apps-10-apps-that-show-off-augmented-reality.html

😊 February is bringing many positive vibes

The winter is nearly over, and the spring is in the air. It’s time for the most romantic holiday, which is Valentine’s day! 💕

People are lining in the shopping malls to find the best gifts for their loved ones, and the Arcona team is in that very romantic mood
 
 🇫🇷Here’s our special raffle devoted to Valentine’s day: we represent to your attention 30 wonderful land plots in Paris – the capital of romance!
   
Moreover, every third land plot is lucky as it’ll go with one more asset in Paris FOR FREE! The raffle is all random as usual.

Check what’s up on the Arcona Marketplace and win a beautiful gift for your Valentine or for your loved self!

https://marketplace.arcona.io/en

No, we will have our own AR, at the moment, we don't have any plans of developing the navigation app.

🚦If navigating in a new city (or even our own one) causes troubles and you end up not in the place you wanted to be, it’s high time to rethink the usage of our navigator and probably switch to more visual one like Google’s augmented reality map.

However, it is not open for public, some people managed to test it and mentioned, that this app really helps you out at complicated intersections.

How it works:
You need to open the map, place the phone in front of your eyes, and the arrows will show you the way and will navigate you, but watch out! The phone will switch to a traditional map view if you put it down.

Developers are still working on the app trying to make it work properly. Read more about the app and its readiness:
https://mashable.com/article/google-ar-maps/#gxTKAhbPJsqC

Our Weekly Dose of AR this week is all about fun and apps.
Watch our video, search for these apps and share your comments below what you think of them.

https://youtu.be/b9yPj7lMIRE

🌏 Arcona continues to expand the geography of the countries where the trademark of the company and its main asset – the Digital Land of Arcona – are registered.

This extremely important process began to gain momentum last year. As you know, the legal protection of a trademark is only possible in the territories of the countries where it is registered and thus very important for the project itself and its name. Also, we care a lot about our users who will launch their interactive businesses within the Arcona system.

🗒 Read our new article to know what countries are already in our list: http://blog.arcona.io/2019/02/08/arconas-expansion-around-the-world/

Art and AR can be mutually beneficial and create a new form of self-expression.

🖼 Portraits, landscapes, and even murals can be alive with the help of augmented reality. AR can tell a story that stands behind that picture and even make more immersive and entertaining. Artists and designers have always used the most advanced technology of their day and AR is an ideal canvas that provides artists with full creative freedom.

There is one of the world's first augmented reality mural in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, that has a lot of different layers and can be seen via Android app. The mural is sponsored by Google and from the article, you can read how the artist was working on this technological masterpiece:
https://www.newsobserver.com/living/article220435425.html

The development always takes a lot of time, especially when we talk about something complex.
You can find Narva Battle on Android.

Spheres where augmented reality is trending now:

Retail

Introducing AR into clothing stores so that people can quickly "try on" a new item (as Timberland did with the AR mirror in the store).

Industrial Applications

Think of it as a way to remove the need for thick manuals and complex instructions; you will be shown what to do, so that will decrease the number of mistakes.

Design & Creative

3d models can become great material for marketing and creative spheres. These models can be integrated into a new project seamlessly.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2019/02/06/augmented-reality-in-business-how-ar-may-change-the-way-we-work/#481be17451e5

This is our Narva Battle app where you can shoot a bit

We are working on iOS now and fingers crossed we will have it by March

👾 Spending huge sums of money on games is not something principally new. Many games, based on collecting and purchasing gear, tools, levels, and powers, gather millions of like-minded people.

This fundamental principle is not alien to the industry of AR and VR since a lot of projects are of a gaming type and include obtaining some specific stuff. The Arcona project, having a wide range of applications for businesses and back-end users, has a gaming potential too, since the project deals with the objects of interactive content.

We closely follow the development in the game industry and monitor the growing potential of cross-application interoperability, which is the future of gaming and many other industries.

👍 Read a new article on how to use Arcona’s Digital Lands in the gaming industry: http://blog.arcona.io/2019/02/05/games-on-blockchain/

🤓Have you tried Snap Chat's filters with glasses and probably thought why frame brands still don't have such cool AR feature?

Well, now they have!

You can virtually try on different frames of numerous designs without leaving your home. The camera scans your face creating a precise copy of it. You can select different designs, share it with your friends and family, get feedback and then just make an order.

The buying process is undergoing a transformation and brick-and-mortar stores are now becoming more like a final destination in a long process of searching, doing research and only after that visiting the store itself.

AR definitely changes the way we shop and we at Arcona are just looking forward to seeing more use cases and offer even more exciting opportunities.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/04/warby-parkers-latest-tool-lets-shoppers-try-glasses-using-augmented-reality/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e09e5b239790

⚙️Why manufacturing needs augmented reality

In order to become a professional, you need to train for about 10,000 hours. That’s quite a number.

This process takes a lot of time and effort and if we talk about industries sometimes you need to make a lot of mistakes to learn something, but there is no place for mistakes. That’s where AR comes in handy and can literally save a lot of time and to be a great medium for acquiring new skills.

The US military and Walmart understood this and Microsoft has made a $480 million deal with the U.S. Army to train troops for complex, dangerous real-world situations via AR and that Walmart has partnered with Oculus and Strivr to teach personnel internal processes in an immersive AR-enabled way.

https://www.plasticstoday.com/injection-molding/why-manufacturing-needs-augmented-reality/136867773060183

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