Author Archive for Ryan Engle, R&D Engineer
One of the most exciting features for iOS 5 barely makes an appearance in Apple’s native apps, but it’s giving developers exciting new options never before seen on mobile. Facial tracking can accomplish everything from putting sunglasses on a person’s face, to tracking their eye movement through an app, but to give you a little taste of what it can do, we decided to zombify our staff.
Augmented Reality has been a big buzzword in mobile, but it’s never managed to graduate past being a gimmick. One of the biggest reasons for this is that it’s usually improperly lit, and consequently it looks blatantly fake. Find out how Mutual Mobile used a common garden supply and a technique employed by Google and game developers to put the “reality” back in AR.










