News Disney launching 'Play Disney Parks' app this summer

[wdwmagic]

Play Disney Parks app expanded to include more Walt Disney World locations

 

[wdwmagic]

Play Disney Parks achievements can now be converted into physical pins

 

[Andrew C]

Play Disney Parks achievements can now be converted into physical pins

ok...that is kinda cool.

 

[larryz]

ok...that is kinda cool.

They started that with the VMK app. You could complete in-park scavenger hunts, create a character in the park, and buy random box assortments of VMK pins that came with codes you could enter online to get the virtual version.

 

[Lora Baines Bradley]

Any idea how much the pins are?

 

[RSoxNo1]

Available for purchase...

 

[geekza]

Yeah, I love it when companies give me the exclusive opportunity to give them more of my money for completing virtual tasks on my phone.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Does the pin come out the top or the bottom of my iPhone?

 

[larryz]

Does the pin come out the top or the bottom of my iPhone?

It depends... do you keep your phone in your back pocket?

 

[JJJ]

Does anyone know about any AR experiences coming to the Play Disney Parks app, or am I missing an announcement? I was scrolling through the Android code and noticed in the strings.xml file (where text in the app is stored for easy translation), there are some mentions of ARCore, Google's sdk for Augmented Reality apps:

<string name="__arcore_install_app">
This application requires the latest version of ARCore.
</string>

<string name="__arcore_install_feature">
This feature requires the latest version of ARCore.
</string>

<string name="__arcore_installing">Installing ARCore…</string>

Maybe this is part of the interactivity coming to Star Wars land? I remember it was announced one feature would be translating text from Aurebesh to English, so maybe they'll put this text back into the real world? Either way, AR would be a really cool new way to interact with the parks!
(Sorry again if this is old news)

Edit: for what it's worth, I also see mentions of OpenCV.

 

[tissandtully]

Does anyone know about any AR experiences coming to the Play Disney Parks app, or am I missing an announcement? I was scrolling through the Android code and noticed in the strings.xml file (where text in the app is stored for easy translation), there are some mentions of ARCore, Google's sdk for Augmented Reality apps:

<string name="__arcore_install_app">
This application requires the latest version of ARCore.
</string>

<string name="__arcore_install_feature">
This feature requires the latest version of ARCore.
</string>

<string name="__arcore_installing">Installing ARCore…</string>

Maybe this is part of the interactivity coming to Star Wars land? I remember it was announced one feature would be translating text from Aurebesh to English, so maybe they'll put this text back into the real world? Either way, AR would be a really cool new way to interact with the parks!
(Sorry again if this is old news)

Edit: for what it's worth, I also see mentions of OpenCV.

Yeah all the workings for the SWGE stuff is already in the play Disney app. Have a friend who heads up that group.