{"id":3315,"date":"2017-03-01T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/8i-uses-hologram-of-astronaut-buzz-aldrin-to-greet-gdc-booth-goers\/"},"modified":"2017-03-01T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:05:14","slug":"8i-uses-hologram-of-astronaut-buzz-aldrin-to-greet-gdc-booth-goers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/8i-uses-hologram-of-astronaut-buzz-aldrin-to-greet-gdc-booth-goers\/","title":{"rendered":"8i uses hologram of astronaut Buzz Aldrin to greet GDC booth goers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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8i is making 3D holograms out of people with its augmented reality software. And the company is using it to welcome people its booth at the Game Developers Conference with a hologram of astronaut Buzz Aldrin.<\/p>\n

The company\u00a0recently announced<\/a> Holo, a consumer mobile augmented reality app that lets people express themselves with funny\u00a0holograms.<\/p>\n

The Holo app is currently in early beta testing on Google\u2019s first Tango-enabled device, the Lenovo Phab2 Pro<\/a>. 8i plans to launch the Holo app later in 2017 with key content partnerships and programming.<\/p>\n

The HoloBuzz demo shows a photorealistic 3D hologram of Buzz Aldrin using 8i\u2019s Holo beta app on Tango. It lets people take a photo with the famous astronaut.\u00a0Holo lets users add holograms to their real-world environments and take videos and photos they can share with friends across their social channels and messaging apps. The app provides an innovative way for influencers across entertainment, music, and sports to reach and engage their audiences, and drive a new form of user-generated content around their brand<\/p>\n

\u201cBuzz Aldrin: Cycling Pathways to Mars<\/a>,\u201d premieres later this month at SXSW and will be distributed by Time\u2019s Life VR. This world\u2019s first room-scale legacy VR project archives Aldrin\u2019s hologram, captured by 8i, for future generations as he shares his plan to create a human settlement on Mars and takes viewers on a journey from the moon to the red planet.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Buzz Aldrin\u2019s brief hologram message.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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