The Wizarding World of Harry Potter park garnered some attention in today’s USAToday newspaper with a fully interactive, augmented reality map included in the Life section of the paper.
On the back page of the Life section, a map of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter park takes up almost the top half of the paper.
Below the map are instructions on how to view the augmented reality, 3D version of the new Harry Potter park at Islands of Adventure in Universal Orlando.
- Go to HarryPotterWorld.usatoday.com
- Watch the tutorial video
- Go to HarryPotter3D.com
- Click the “Launch Augmented Reality Map” button on the bottom of this page.
- This will launch your webcam and you need to hold the map pretty close to the webcam.
- Music will start first, then the interactive 3D images on the Harry Potter map.
- You can also blow on your microphone to get the banners at Hogwart’s, although we couldn’t make this happen.
We did a little screencast video of us working with the augmented reality map, so you can see how it works and/or doesn’t work.
In spite of the difficulties, the paper map is pretty cool and probably a collector’s item, down the road.
Make sure to keep checking in, here at WizardingWorldPark.com for news and updates about the Harry Potter park.