The Washington Post and USA Today are using augmented reality to spotlight the sports new to the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, which kicks off today.
These AR initiatives are tests to expand their emerging tech capabilities and establish a pathway to turn around similar projects faster in the future. It’s a foray into a relatively new mode of storytelling made possible only at sizable publishers that have the funding and resources to experiment.
USA Today added two AR experiences around the Olympic Games to its mobile app on July 19:
One is narrated by professional skateboarder Tom Schaar, who gives a tour of the Olympic Games’ skateboarding course, displays simulations of skateboarding tricks, and provides a look at his career
#BOLO: Rail Trail project in limbo after Thursday’s RTC meeting
The defunct Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line runs alongside a recently completed section of the trail portion of the Rail Trail corridor through Santa Cruz. Whether commuter trains will ever run next to the trail remains an open question.
(Kevin Painchaud / Lookout Santa Cruz)
In Lookout’s preview of yesterday’s Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Committee meeting, we signaled there could either be fireworks or crickets regarding the controversial Rail Trail proposal to build a commuter rail line next to a recreation path between Watsonville and Santa Cruz. In the end, no formal vote occurred, and there were still facts to be sorted through late Thursday. So
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