AUGMENTED REALITY

[ HOLOLENS ] Trace DIGITISING CRIME SCENES IN AR. $TBC | vimeo.com/226337955

A team of recent graduates took out the Best Social Impact award at Microsoft’s Design Expo with an augmented reality application that digitises crime scenes and allows highlights and annotations to be added directly to noteworthy pieces of evidence. Reminiscent of the sci-fi film Minority Report, this new software gives legal representatives, jurors and judges the ability to walk through the original crime scene at any time, enlarging, rotating and listening to audio notes at points of interest.

[ ANDROID, IOS ] Ingress Prime IS NIANTIC PRIMED FOR THE LAUNCH OF A NEW AR TITLE? $TBC | ingressprime.com

Pokémon GO developer Niantic’s first AR game, Ingress, saw a 20 million download uptick following the successful use of the game’s core mechanic in the Pokémon Company AR sensation. Niantic has announced it’s rewriting the storyline and updating the client platform for the revamped Ingress Prime, which is set to launch in 2018. Niantic is optimistic that it’ll be able to juggle ongoing Pokémon GO committments, the new Ingress Prime and also launch the highly anticipated Harry Potter: Wizards Unite AR title.