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The Mandalorian Comes To Mobile with Goolge ARCore

Baby Yoda and Mando fans rejoice! Google has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm to create an AR experience to allow fans of hit streaming series, The Mandalorian, to enjoy snippets of the series on their smartphones. The Mandalorian AR Experience will bring some of the iconic scenes of Mando and The Child’s (Baby Yoda) adventures from the first season to whatever space its users want it to be; whether it be the living room, the outdoors or any other space.

Source: Google

To experience the virtual Mandalorian content, users will be required to download The Mandalorian AR Experience app on the Google Play Store using a supported 5G Android device. According to Google, this app will allow users to recreate some of the epic scenes from its critically acclaimed first season. For example, scenes like finding the Child, harnessing the Force and many other scenes are made available on the AR experience.

Players will be able to see life-sized versions of their favourite characters as they follow the trail of Mando, Din Djarin and the Child. Players can now interact with the characters in AR while capturing the scenes for sharing. Besides that, players will also be able to unlock additional effects based on the actions they perform within the app as the scenes interact and respond to the surrounding by using Google’s ARCore platform.

New episodes of the experience will be released on ‘Mando Mondays’ – a moniker given by Disney. Besides having weekly episodes updates, users that own a Pixel device will also be able to get additional exclusive content aside from the app itself.

The Mandalorian AR experience does not require a 5G connection to use the app. However, users will need a compatible 5G device. The app is free of charge and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. Do check out the list of devices that is compatible for The Mandalorian AR experience on the official website.

Step Aside Pokémon Go! Niantic Announces Catan: World Explorers!

After the success of Pokémon GO, it comes as no surprise that there are more augmented reality (AR) games being developed by Niantic. However, it wouldn’t be a surprise if Catan was the last game on your mind to get an AR edition. In collaboration with Asmodee, Niantic is bringing the popular board game to life on your mobile phone!

CATAN: World Explorers turns the whole world into a gigantic playable game of CATAN. As you might expect, if you’ve played the popular board game, you will be collecting resources: bricks, lumber, grain, ore and wool to trade with other players and building settlements into cities. You’ll also be playing in teams to collect Victory Points at local and global levels – similar to the team mechanic in Pokémon Go.

As you might expect from a Niantic game, CATAN: New Explorers uses the same maps from Pokémon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite to create interactive landmarks which become central to the gameplay. These real world locations are then pieced into a humungous, global map and playing board for an AR game of CATAN.

The new CATAN AR game is one of ten projects currently being developed at Niantic. The company has teased the projects in a new announcement blog post on website.

CATAN: New Explores is ready for its beta debut and has opened pre-registrations at its official website.