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Pantomime Launches Creatures AR App with Shared Augmented Reality

Sebastopol, California Pantomime Corporation has today launched the Pantomime Creatures AR app for iPads and iPhones, introducing a new kind of augmented reality that provides first person experiences and realistic, multiplayer 3D interaction using mobile devices. NETWORKED AUGMENTED REALITY WITH REAL-TIME PHYSICS Pantomime Creatures AR represents an advance in interactive graphics over the popular Pokémon […]

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Augmented Reality Goes Viral

Pantomime has had an exciting month! Thanks to Pokémon GO, our core focus — virtual worlds without a headset — has been transformed from an unfamiliar, unproven concept into a key feature of the most successful app in history.  That’s sweet, since Pantomime’s software platform lets developers create handheld AR apps that offer real-time 3D […]

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Pantomime at GamesBeat 2016

Lightning round speakers at GamesBeat teach us how to do the right thing David Levitt, CEO at Pantomime, described the Pantomime Platform, the company’s software for interactive consumer augmented reality that runs across mobile devices, personal computers, and VR headsets. Pantomime’s software libraries let users reach in and interact in shared virtual worlds using their mobile […]

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Pantomime CEO on NPR’s On Point – Beyond Pokemon GO

Today the Pokemon GO phenomenon is ground zero for a new revolution in mass, consumer augmented reality experiences. Virtual reality innovator and Pantomime CEO David Levitt spoke on “NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook” panel about Pokemon GO and the fast-arriving future of augmented and virtual reality for ordinary people. Live Wednesday, July 13th at 11:00am EST […]

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Pantomime Brings Interactive Multiplayer to Virtual Reality

Hollywood, California Today at the AR/VR Vision Summit 2016, Pantomime Corporation demonstrated the first software that lets users of virtual reality headsets play in 3D worlds over WiFi networks using a smart phone or tablet to reach in.  Users see the devices they are really handling, in animated virtual hands, through the immersive stereo display.  When multiple users join a world, they see each […]

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Pantomime Brings Multiplayer Interactivity to Virtual Reality

10 February 2016 Hollywood, California Pantomime Corporation today demonstrated the first software that lets users of virtual reality headsets play in 3D worlds over WiFi networks, using a smart phone or tablet to reach in.  Users see the devices they are really handling, in animated virtual hands, through the immersive stereo display.  When multiple users join a world, they see each others’ virtual […]

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Robert Scoble Discovers Pantomime Networked Virtual Reality

“This is the gateway drug for Oculus — and the coolest s[tuff]* for Christmas!” This week tech and AR/VR journalist Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) spent an hour with the Pantomime software team, reaching into networked VR worlds, and never had to put on a headset!  Amid virtual worlds that included live interactive creatures in the Bug Farm, a Bowling alley, Dominos, […]

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Pantomime Introduces Networked Virtual/Augmented Reality with Bug Farm Apps

Sebastopol, CA Pantomime Corporation has today released the first interactive augmented reality software that runs networked across iPads, iPhones and Macs, without requiring a virtual reality headset, glasses, or other special hardware.  The software, now available in the App Store and Mac App Store as “Pantomime Bug Farm”, lets users reach in and play with virtual […]

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New Apple TV and iPad Pro Perfect for Pantomime

It’s often a magical holiday when Apple introduces new products, especially for Pantomime. This September’s announcements are a delight in both expected and unexpected ways. We were hoping there’d be an iPad Pro product introduction in our stocking, and we weren’t disappointed. The extra large tablet screen widens the field of view for our unique […]

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