AR is for Everyone! 8th Wall, now a part of
@NianticLabs
, is the leading WebAR development platform. Engage users with interactive AR—no app required.
We are excited to announce that 8th Wall is joining
@NianticLabs
! 🎉 Together with Niantic, we will empower more developers, agencies and brands to realize their visions for AR and the real-world metaverse.
Read more on the blog 👉
8th Wall Release 11 is now LIVE with a highly requested feature: IMAGE TARGETS🖼🎯That’s right- you can now use your own images to detect and track in today's web browsers! Oh and you can run markerless tracking at the same time 🤯 ALSO
@babylonjs
support, embeds + more
#WebAR
Lightship VPS is coming to the 8th Wall platform soon!
VPS determines the position and orientation of a user and anchors AR content for real-world immersive AR on a global scale.
Watch this demo video of actual footage of VPS running in the browser.
💫 Render translucent 3D models more realistically by combining transmission glTF extension support in three.js r131+ with 8th Wall realtime reflections!
Get started by using the “three.js: Gummy Transmission” project from our Project Library.
Try it 👉
🌎 Introducing Lightship VPS for Web, bringing the Real-World Metaverse to the browser!
📍Connect WebAR content to real-world locations
🗺️Instantly use 100,000+ VPS-activated Wayspots
🤯Access the 3D mesh to build next-level WebAR
Learn more:
Introducing 8th Wall Realtime Reflections 🪞✨
Now you can add even more realism to your 8th Wall
#WebAR
projects!
Realtime Reflections dynamically mirror the natural world and reflect changing environmental conditions 🌎
Read all about it👉
🗺️ Introducing Lightship Maps for Web
Easily add customizable maps to any 8th Wall project using the same technology as Niantic games.
🗺️Add a map to WebAR projects in minutes
📍Use themes and add your own locations
🌎Create a world of AR content
⛅️ Introducing Sky Effects - augment the world above you with WebAR! ⛅️
- Replace the sky to transform the world
- Populate the sky with 3D content
- Create interactive experiences in the distance
Learn more on the blog:
New feature 🔥
#InlineAR
: You can now embed WebAR within any website, integrating it with existing content so users no longer need to leave your webpage to experience it! Read all about it and get started 👉
Woohoo! We won an Auggie for Best Developer Tool! 🏆 A huge thank you to everyone who voted for us, we’re so honored and humbled by your support 🙏
#WebAR
#AWE2019
New Integration Alert!📢Use
@Microsoft
's Mixed Reality Capture Studios to capture volumetric videos of people, then add them to your 8th Wall project! The result? Insanely lifelike holograms that live on the web 🤯 Read about it here 👉
🌐 Introducing 8th Wall’s all-new Reality Engine! 🌐
Now you can build an 8th Wall WebAR project once and deploy it across smartphones, tablets, computers and AR & VR headsets. 📱 💻 👓
Learn more 👉
Introducing 🔥 8th Wall Curved Image Targets!
Now you can bring bottles, cups & cans to life in
#WebAR
by tracking images wrapped around cylinder and cone-shaped objects 🍾🥫🥤
Read all about it 👉
#CurvedImageTargets
#poweredby8thwall
Get ready, 8th Wall Agents! 🕶️
Starting August 1st, we need your help on a mission to merge the physical and digital worlds at Niantic. 🌐🔗🌎
Stay tuned for more details.
Take your WebAR hologram projects to the next level w/ advanced relighting techniques!
Check out this 8th Wall project that illustrates how to relight a
@MSFTVolumetric
hologram’s material properties at runtime🚦
Try here👉
@metastageXR
#poweredby8thWall
Introducing: Cloud Editor + Hosting! ☁️📝You can now create, collaborate and publish WebAR projects all in one place, in real time 🤯 What will you and your team create? Read about it here👉
Introducing Absolute Scale 🌎📏
The 8th Wall Engine now features a new SLAM capability which enables interactive, cross-platform, real-world scale WebAR—a first for the browser!
Read more on the blog 👉
Announcing new plans and tools for first-party AR and VR web development! 🎉
🧑💻 Plans start at $9.99/month
💰 Add secure payments to any project
🌐 Publish to
Now even more developers can build a successful business on 8th Wall!
⚡️WebAR Portals created on 8th Wall just got even more powerful with our upgraded AR Engine!⚡️
Advancements in our SLAM map accuracy enable you to create Portals that feel even more real & gives ur users more freedom to explore the AR scene🚀
Read more 👉
We've landed in Cannes!
Niantic is as an official partner of
#CannesLions2022
Festival. Join us on the Terrace all week and for our Happy Hour June 23 at 5:30pm.
Fly the ARship around the Festival with this experience created by Wonderment by Design
Introducing the new 8th Wall Project Library featuring over 30+
#WebAR
and
#WebVR
projects! ⚡️💻 Discover and clone immersive experiences so you can start developing web-based reality projects quicker than ever! Read more here 👉
🎶
@CocaCola
collaborated w/ Tomorrowland to launch an AR musical experience for the release of Dreamworld!
Enter the Dreamworld universe & challenge yourself to a rhythm game in this AR experience created by
@UNIT9
,
@virtueworldwide
& powered by 8th Wall.
Just playing with
@CharlieFink
's latest book on all things XR, "Convergence"📚 We're beyond honored to have been included in this. Give it a read!
#WebXR
#augmentedreality
🌟 Last week we brought the
@Cannes_Lions
Festival into the real-world metaverse! From our AR activations during the Niantic Happy Hour to an AR scananger hunt, delegates were able to experience the festival like never before.
Learn more on
@VRScout
👉
New feature 🔥Hologram WebAR projects just got way easier to make! Use our MRCS Hologram template PLUS our new Asset Bundle Upload feature to drag-and-drop volumetric video files directly into your project!
#WebAR
#holograms
Learn more 👉
👋Wave hello to Hand Tracking!
🤚Now, you have the tools to create immersive & interactive WebAR experiences using the hands, wrists, & fingers — all in the same experience. The limits of what you can create is in your hands!
🙌 Read our blog for more:
🌊
@adidas
turned its storefront windows into an AR activated campaign to raise awareness for ocean pollution and help end plastic waste.
Created by
@atomicsoom
and powered by 8th Wall. Learn more here 👉
⭐️World Tracking + Image Targets = Next Level WebAR⭐️
Enable World Tracking for your curved (or flat) Image Target project to create a magical & surreal experience!
Read all about it and get started 👉
#WebAR
#poweredby8thWall
🔥We’re taking our talents to
@MiamiHackWeek
Jan 29 - Feb 4!
Hack with our teams from
@SpotXGames
and
@the8thwall
and the top builders in AR and web3 all week long at our secret Niantic AR Loft in the heart of Miami.
Apply by Jan 15. Spots are limited➡️
Create WebAR experiences that interact with Image Targets as well as the physical space around you! 🖼️🎯
#ImageTargettoSLAM
is one of 30+ cloneable
#WebAR
and
#WebVR
projects in our new Project Library. Try it in AR, view code, and clone it your workspace 👉
✨ Learn how to create a this or that face filter effect using head tilt as an input selection mechanism with the “Face Effects: This or That” project found in our Project Library!
Try it in AR and clone it into your workspace using this link 👉
🎃Coca-Cola is bringing Halloween into the Real-World Metaverse w/ the Coca-Cola Halloween Collection! This WebAR experience uses Lightship VPS for Web to transform vending machines into virtual treat dispensers.
@virtueworldwide
@unbndgroup
Learn more👉
🎉 We are giving away 2 AWE EU tickets! To participate, you need to:
📲 1) Follow
@the8thwall
and
@lightshipar
Twitter accounts
👍 2) Like this post and repost to your Twitter
✍️ 3) Tag a friend in the comments
Deadline: 10/16, 11:59 pm BST. 2 random winners will be selected.…
🔥The AI Interior Designer uses both the centimeter-level precision of Lightship VPS for Web and the Stable Diffusion Material Algorithm which creates seamless textures to deliver an immersive real-world experience.
Created by
@ARK_x_
&
#poweredby8thWall
.
✨ May the 4th be with you ✨ Watch as this Star Wars themed deck card brings your favorite characters including Rey, Boba Fett and C-3PO to life using WebAR!
Created by VR Owl and powered by 8th Wall. Learn more here 👉
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
#StarWarsDay
🌐Help us solve this mission to create a Shared AR experience that brings people together while harnessing
@ingress
values.
🗓️Join our live virtual events or the slack community to learn more! All submissions are due September 4th!
🔗
WebAR meets the Blockchain in Doritos Quest🧀Find virtual
@Doritos
Bags on a map & open them in the world using
#WebAR
!
Collect all 4 unique
@Playstation
shapes to win a Playstation 5. All virtual objects, from the bags to the shapes, are
#Vatoms
built on the
@BLOCKv_io
protocol
8th Wall Agents, join us for this month's Shared AR mission!
💥We're challenging developers to create shared, persistent, and fun WebAR experiences with Ingress players in mind.🥳
Don't miss out on these events! 🌐
📣 We are excited to announce our latest volumetric video integration with
@tetavi
! 📣
Learn how to take advantage of Tetavi’s portable capture studios to add high-quality holograms to your WebAR project here👉
At Immersive Van Gogh in NYC, visitors get to experience the art of Vincent van Gogh like never before with an augmented reality experience that brings five different paintings to life! 🌃
Created by Continuum and powered by 8th Wall. ✨
🏈Step inside the Pepsi Super Bowl LV
#HalfTimeShow
Commercial featuring
@TheWeeknd
& become part of the action with this immersive 360-degree AR portal experience🎤
Try it👉
Created by Virtual Rights Management ARIA 360° AR Division &
#poweredby8thWall
👫To the metaverse! Create your digital twin in AR using a 3D scan of yourself from the
@Scaniverse
app and combining it with 8th Wall’s Joystick Movement.
Try it yourself here 👉
In Japan, Shinmai Newspaper
@shinmaiweb
included a double-spread photo that transformed into a fireworks show using
#WebAR
, so that readers could experience the annual fireworks display that was cancelled due to
#COVID19
🇯🇵🎆
#poweredby8thWall
🚨 Update Alert! 🚨 With iOS 14.3 your 8th Wall
#WebAR
projects can now be easily experienced across your favorite iPhone apps & browsers including:
⚡️Snapchat
⚡️Instagram
⚡️Facebook
⚡️LinkedIn
⚡️Chrome
& more!
Read all about it👉
🌟 We are excited to be an official partner of the
@Cannes_Lions
International Festival of Creativity! Join the 8th Wall team in Cannes from June 20-24th to learn all about the power of WebAR for marketing and advertising!
#CannesLions2022
#Cannes2022
We've been nominated for a couple of Auggies! 🥳 One for Best Developer Tool 🛠️ and the second for Best Campaign
#poweredby8thWall
. If you want to help get us on stage at
#AWE2019
please vote for us here 👉
🧱 The
@LEGO_Group
collaborated with
@Minecraft
to launch two minigames that could be played as both AR on mobile and 3D on desktop!
Created by
@Hoopla_Digital
and powered by 8th Wall. Learn more here 👉
🎉8th Wall is honored to be selected by
@FastCompany
as one of The World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021!
We celebrate this recognition w/ our amazing community of developers & partners who make the web a powerful place for AR.
#FCMostInnovative
"Next time alpaca lunch" 🦙😂The
#GreenScreenEffect
is just one of 30+ cloneable
#WebAR
and
#WebVR
projects in our new Project Library! Try it in AR, view code, and clone it your workspace 👉
Happy Independence Day! 🎉 Send a personalized message to your family and friends this 4th of July using WebAR!
Created by
@CaptivatarAR
and powered by 8th Wall. Try it out here 👉
This Week in WebAR 👀
@Ally
+ MONOPOLY turned the US into a giant board game💸🎲and
@adidas
transformed transit cards into scratch tickets to win prizes 👟Read all about it here 👉
@mssngpeces
@Anomaly
@jam3
🌟 Get your creativity flowing with the MEGA Pokémon world WebAR experience! Build and explore in AR and interact with hotspots on the product to see the features and Pokémon within the sets.
Created by
@Hoopla_Digital
and powered by 8th Wall. Learn more:
This WebAR experience created by
@vetorzerolab
@skt_caiera
for Volvo Brazil brings the dealership to you! Hop into the driver's seat of a Volvo s60, explore features and customize its interior and exterior in real time🚗
#Poweredby8thWall
and
@threejs_org
Build once, deploy everywhere with 8th Wall’s Metaversal Deployment! Let Wol, an AI-enabled owl serve as your guide as you transform your space into the redwood forest. Now available on Meta Quest Pro, Meta Quest 2, iOS & Android smartphones.
Build your own portal to Narnia, outerspace, a tropical island, (wherever!) using the
#WorldTrackingPortal
, just one of 30+ cloneable
#WebAR
and
#WebVR
projects in our new Project Library! Try it in AR, view code, and clone it your workspace 👉
"This game-changing technology can help companies tap into a huge range of experiential marketing campaigns, from embedded AR worlds and characters to filters and digital ads."
Learn how
@NianticLabs
and 8th Wall are creating the future of AR below 👇
Creator Spotlight 💡 We love this Web AR power drill demo created by
#WULFArts
using our rapid prototyping tool, AR Camera. View it here
#8thWallWeb
#WebXR