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December 23, 2019
2019: Our Pocket-Sized Year in Review
It’s been a busy, exciting year here at Pocket Sized Hands! We’ve worked on a bunch of awesome new projects, welcomed new members into our wonderful team, and so much more – and hopefully 2020 is an even bigger, better year. But before that, let’s take a look back...
December 15, 2017
Using Snapchat To Increase Footfall for your Business
Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of Snapchat Lenses. Snapchat Lenses is a development tool released yesterday (14/12/17) by Snapchat that allows creatives, developers and brands access to their powerful Augmented Reality API. Now anyone can bring their ideas to life on Snapchat.
How it works Once...
December 13, 2017
How Virtual Reality will impact Education
Education is one of the fundamental bedrocks of the world today. It’s impossible imagine what the world would look like without it. But yet for something so intrinsic to our society, the methods of teaching often feel like they haven’t evolved as rapidly as other principles. The launch of...
December 7, 2017
Achieving 6 Degrees of Freedom on Mobile VR Using ARCore
One of the main limiting factors that mobile VR faces in its current state is the lack of positional tracking that the experiences have. 3 Degrees of Freedom (3DoF) is as far as these applications go, and whilst it is amazing to be able to have this on a...
July 3, 2017
Building Games That Help Air Traffic Control
If you’ve not heard of Gamejams, read on. NATS has, and they’ve been discovering just how much fun we have at Pocket Sized Hands – where we make games! Gamejams usually take place over 20-40 hours in which developers team up to create games and tackle new design ideas...
May 3, 2017
Mircosofts Imagine Cup: Post Mortem
Bringing our game Honeypot Espionage to the Imagine Cup UK Finals was an exciting and intimidating experience. Last year the Imagine Cup had different Categories for the competition. Games, innovation and World Citizenship. This year, these groups had been scrapped in favour of combining all of them into one....