Search engine giant Google has announced Google Spotlight Stories, a 360-degree storytelling application, for iOS. Google's storytelling app features immersive films developed by Motorola before Google acquired it in 2011. The Spotlight Stories app can now be downloaded by iOS users via Apple's iTune Store, Tech Times reported on Saturday.
As Tech Times noted, Google's Spotlight Stories app supports any type of Apple mobile device running on iOS 8.0 or the most recent mobile operating system, iOS 8.4. The report stated that Google's Spotlight Stories app has been available for Android for two years already. The storytelling app is said to be intended for entertainment using 3D animations with a sound sphere audio and a sensor fusion technology.
"Immerse yourself in a world of storytelling made just for mobile. Engineers and critically acclaimed filmmakers are bringing stories to life using the latest advances in mobile technology. Using 3D and 2D animation, 360° spherical cinema-quality video, sound sphere audio, and sensor fusion techniques, the screen is now a window into a story that unfolds all around you. Look anywhere, follow individual characters, watch it over again and again. It's a little different each time. Google Spotlight Stories is your mobile movie theatre," Google explained as quoted in the Geeky Gadgets website.
"Engineers and critically acclaimed filmmakers are bringing stories to life using the latest advances in mobile technology. Using 3D and 2D animation, 360° spherical cinema-quality video, sound sphere audio, and sensor fusion techniques, the screen is now a window into a story that unfolds all around you. Look anywhere, follow individual characters, watch it over again and again. It's a little different each time. Google Spotlight Stories is your mobile movie theatre," the description of the new app further reads.
Google's Spotlight Stories in iOS will reportedly feature the first movie called "Windy Day." The said movie was developed by ex-Pixar filmmakers and was already featured in Motorola's Moto X phone. Tech Times reports that at present there are four stories available, namely: Buggy Night, Help, Duet and Windy Day.
