DinoTracker AR app puts Jurassic World characters in real spaces

Universal has announced its latest Jurassic World tie-in product: A Pokémon Go-style AR app called DinoTracker. It allows players to interact with dinos from the recently released Dominion film and to pick up small facts on their real-life counterparts.

The premise of the app is pretty simple: Using their phone’s camera, players can “track” traces of dinos in the world around them. When they find the dinos — among 10 prehistoric characters to find — they can feed them with their hands. Developed by Trigger XR, the game uses Niantic’s Lightship ARDK to recognize different surfaces and spaces and map the dino of the appropriate size to the space around the user.