Facebook devoted much of its annual developer conference to the concept of augmented reality — using technology to place a digital layer on top of the real world, either for creative or functional reasons. Starting with our smartphone cameras, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, we’ll begin placing virtual objects in our physical surroundings, until eventually glasses and other wearables do it for us. He and his deputies went on to show examples of AR objects created using the smartphone, such as a group of cartoon sharks circling an actual cereal bowl. But to me, none of what was shown onstage was quite as compelling as Gabsee.
Gabsee, a free app now available for Android and iOS, lets you place a three-dimensional avatar of yourself into the...
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