{"id":6530,"date":"2018-02-06T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T19:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6530"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:48:02","slug":"motion-stills-gains-a-fun-new-ar-mode-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/06\/motion-stills-gains-a-fun-new-ar-mode-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion Stills gains a fun new AR mode on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray! My first real project to ship since joining my new team is here:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today, we are excited to announce the new Augmented Reality (AR) mode in <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.motionstills&amp;hl=en\">Motion Stills for Android<\/a>. With the new AR mode, a user simply touches the viewfinder to place fun, virtual 3D objects on static or moving horizontal surfaces (e.g. tables, floors, or hands), allowing them to seamlessly interact with a dynamic real-world environment. You can also record and share the clips as GIFs and videos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NewImage-8.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"256\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the nerdier among us, we\u2019ve put together a Research blog post about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.googleblog.com\/2018\/02\/the-instant-motion-tracking-behind.html\">The Instant Motion Tracking Behind Motion Stills AR<\/a>, and on CNET Stephen Shankland gives a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-android-app-gets-ar-stickers-for-video-sharing\/\">nice overview<\/a>\u00a0(and has been tweeting out some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stshank\/status\/960932319006638080\">fun animations<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Motion Stills app can put AR stickers into any Android device with a gyroscope, which is nothing special these days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve long been a longtime fan of Motion Stills, <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/category\/mobile\/motion-stills\/\">posting about it for years<\/a>. I\u2019m so glad to get to work with these guys now. There\u2019s more good stuff to come, so please us know what you think!<\/p>\n<p>(BTW, the 3D models are among the many thousands you can download for free from <a href=\"https:\/\/poly.google.com\/\">poly.google.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MS_2018-02-02_16-15-38.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6532\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray! My first real project to ship since joining my new team is here: Today, we are excited to announce the new Augmented Reality (AR) mode in Motion Stills for Android. With the new AR mode, a user simply touches the viewfinder to place fun, virtual 3D objects on static or moving horizontal surfaces (e.g. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6534,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}