Brilliant Augmented Reality App Lets You Star in Your Own ’80s Music Video

One of the most memorable euphony video of the 1980s isA - ha ’s “ Take On Me”featuring a untried woman who ’s pulled into a world that looks like it only survive as crude pencil sketch . The video took 16 calendar week to animate by hand , butTrixi Studioscreated an augmented reality app that can renovate the effect in tangible - meter .

Ever since Apple denote the availability of ARKit — a rooms of new tools that make it easier to append augmented reality features to an app — at itsWWDC event back in June , iPhone and iPad substance abuser have been promise how developer will use AR in new and unparalleled ways .

Trixi Studios ’ ‘ Take On Me ’ app is n’t exactly a must - have feature for your phone , but watch it wrench this rest home into a series of wide-eyed doodle inhabit by a virtual performing artist makes smartphones seem amazing again . And it ’s experiment like this that will finally lead to augmented reality breakthroughs we wo n’t be able to live without .