First off, thank you to all our Figment AR users! We love seeing the figments you have been posting to social media and watching AR come to life for you. Additionally, your feedback and comments have been invaluable and we just launched an updated app with many of the new features you requested.

Download the updated app -> HERE!

Animated Characters and Objects

To make Figment even more fun and interactive, we added new characters with awesome animations. Check out the Ice Cream, Pumpkin and Turkey as they come alive in your scene. Also, all our emojis now have animations, so you can truly express your feelings with Figment. Tap on any object to pause the animation and tap again to restart the animation.

Dancing Ice Cream Cone

360 Videos in Portals

One of the most requested features from the Figment community was support for 360 videos in portals. We heard your feedback and now you can teleport to any 360 video with Figment. Place any portal in your scene, then tap on the portal to bring up the context menu (appears in the upper right corner). Tap on the + icon to change the portal scene. We have included a couple 360 videos for you to try or switch to the Recent tab and use your own 360 videos.

AR Portal with 360 Video

Augmenting Halloween and Thanksgiving

Make your upcoming holidays more fun and festive with our holiday themed characters and effects. Add fog to your world and show off your dance moves next to our Pumpkin Zombie. Or entertain your Thanksgiving guests with our dancing turkey. We even have a cake in case you forget to bring dessert.

Halloween AR — Zombie Pumpkin

Figment AR

Thanks again for all your support, we hope you have fun with the new features! Please continue sharing your figments on social media with #figmentAR. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and on our blog to stay updated on Figment AR.

Developers

If you are interested in developing your own AR app, check out Viro AR, the development platform that Figment AR was built on. Start building today!

Some helpful guides & tutorials:

Viro AR QuickStart Guide

How to build an interactive AR app in 5 mins with Viro AR

How to build AR Portals in 5 mins with Viro AR

Figment AR Code on Github