It'll be interesting to see if this spawns some new creative building options in Minecraft - specifically tailoring a construction to act as a facade for a building. Theoretically you could transform a street when viewed through your device, which could be an interesting building challenge or competition.
The AR tracking component is about what you'd expect - requires localised areas of high contrast to track from and doesn't work well on non-flat surfaces - but for what it is, it could be pretty neat. Perhaps it'll end up working with Google Glass or similar later.
They advertise that they're using the PointCloud library for the tracking component, which is apparently free if you wanted to build your own app.
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It'll be interesting to see if this spawns some new creative building options in Minecraft - specifically tailoring a construction to act as a facade for a building. Theoretically you could transform a street when viewed through your device, which could be an interesting building challenge or competition.
The AR tracking component is about what you'd expect - requires localised areas of high contrast to track from and doesn't work well on non-flat surfaces - but for what it is, it could be pretty neat. Perhaps it'll end up working with Google Glass or similar later.
They advertise that they're using the PointCloud library for the tracking component, which is apparently free if you wanted to build your own app.