Social VR App vTime Opens a Window to Augmented Reality Users with iOS & Android App
Battle tested for years in the realm of virtual reality, vTime is finally bringing its immersive social chat experience into AR.
In order to wrap your head around this idea, first it's important to explain what vTime is. For the last few years, vTime has allowed VR users to meet each other in VR using avatar bodies via headsets like the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Go, Google Daydream, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.
Also, the VR app doesn't just allow you to meet other people (well, their avatars) in VR, but you can all move to different environments and rooms while talking (on a beach, on a mountain top, around a campfire, or on a moving train), which makes the VR experience feel a lot more immersive and not unlike using a Star Trektransporter to hold meetings in various virtual places.
Now, the new AR Mode in the vTime mobile app for iOS and Android devices supporting ARKit and ARCore allows users to interact with social VR users without the need of a VR or AR headset. This new dynamic, which was teased about a year ago, opens vTime's hidden VR world up to AR users who prefer to keep one foot in the real world while engaging other vTime users.
Like many ARKit and ARCore apps, the process starts by using your smartphone to scan for a nearby surface. After you've established a surface scan, you place the virtual environment in your real world space and either monitor or engage various vTime virtual chat sessions.
The app is free and only requires the creation of a user account.
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