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Dinotracker AR smartphone app uses Niantic’s latest AR technology. It shows what is currently possible with the AR smartphone.
The AR app accompanies the release of Jurassic World Dominion Extended Edition. The film was released in theaters under the title Jurassic World: A New Age.
With Dinotracker AR, Android and iOS users can search and interact with the dinosaurs in the movie. Animated prehistoric saurians appear life-sized in the physical environment. This gives you a good impression of their size.
Discover digital dinosaurs in their more or less natural habitat
You can discover the following dinosaurs:
- Velociraptor (blue): One of the dinosaurs featured in the film that is found in medium-sized areas with visible terrain.
- Velociraptor (Beta): Blue’s offspring are a smaller raptor that travels in smaller areas.
- Carnotaur: You can find this dinosaur in large grassy areas. This dinosaur is almost 10 meters long.
- Tyrannosaurus Rex: The most famous dinosaur species roams in very large areas.
Other dinosaurs you can see are Pteranodon, Dilophosaurus, Stygimoloch, Gallimimus, Nasutoceratops, and Compsognathus. A trailer shows some of these dinosaurs in action.
Dinotracker AR uses Niantic technology
Dinotracker AR is based on Niantic’s Lightship SDK and offers advanced AR features.
The app can determine in real time what kind of environment the smartphone camera is pointing at and display a corresponding dinosaur, such as a pterosaur in the sky or a dilophosaurus in a meadow.
Dinosaurs are occluded by physical objects like walls or tree trunks, which should make them even more realistic (see video above). This occlusion is enabled by the Lightship SDK algorithms for understanding image depth.
Users can throw food at the Comsognathus with their hands. The hand tracking uses Apple’s Core ML and Google’s Media Pipe. Dinosaurs are animated by shadows and react to users, for example, when they get too close.
Dinotracker AR was developed by the Californian studio Trigger XR and is available for download from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
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