293: Is AR a Gimmick?
This week, we bring back the Fight Me segment with a debate on the usefulness of augmented reality in apps. Is it a gimmick or not? In Follow-up, we debut a proposal for our new cover art, and we shout out Linzi Berry's latest blog post. And as always, we share a couple cool things like an addictive game and a bizarre novel.
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This week, we bring back the Fight Me segment with a debate on the usefulness of augmented reality in apps. Is it a gimmick or not? In Follow-up, we debut a proposal for our new cover art, and we shout out Linzi Berry's latest blog post. And as always, we share a couple cool things like an addictive game and a bizarre novel.
Cover photo by Niantic via The Verge
Follow-up:
- If you missed last week's episode with Linzi Berry, give it a listen
- Erik Bro shared the episode with his fellow designers at Reddit
- Here's the new cover art proposal, in case you don't see it in your podcast player of choice
- The current cover art is by Ryan Morrison
- Email us with your cover art ideas at [email protected]
- Article: "A system built on parity: How to treat all of your users equally" by Linzi Berry, Kathy Ma, and Sam Soffes
- Read it on the newly redesigned site for DesignSystems.com from Figma
Fight Me:
- Article: "How Does the Magic Yellow First-Down Line Work?"
- Site: Pokémon Go lets you "catch Pokémon in the real world"
- Photo: Old Man Yells at Cloud is a Simpsons reference and Marshall sometimes
- Photo: Old car radios have these big, spring-loaded buttons that move a physical needle
- App: Wanna Kicks lets you "try on and shop footwear in AR"
- Site: Apple - Augmented Reality for iOS is Apple's case for augmented reality
- App: WordLens (now a feature within Google Translate) lets you "see the world in your language"
- Video: "Hearthstone Animated Short: Hearth and Home" is pure joy
One Cool Thing:
- Brian shared Factory Town, an early access simulation game that lets you "build, automate, and optimize your own village on procedurally-generated 3D terrain"
- It's a lot like Factorio, "a game in which you build and maintain factories"
- Article: "Engineering with Redstone in Minecraft"
- Marshall shared John Dies at the End, a novel that deftly balances Lovecraftian horror with shameless potty humor
- The movie version is currently available to stream on Hulu
- Marshall also read Children of Time, which was kinda meh
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