The makers of Sphero – the smartphone controlled robotic ball, have announced new ways developers can make the ball more appealing to consumers with augmented reality based gaming applications.
Orbotix have created a new Sphero augmented reality plug-in for Unity, as well as making a new Sphero AR SDK available on Github – the world’s largest open source code sharing community.
This means that developers can simply insert their 3D models and create games/apps around them – all using the Sphero ball as a physical moving AR marker. There are already augmented reality games/apps available, such as Shaky the Beaver, launched in November 2012. << More >>
