Google to mark 50th year of Apollo 11 mission with AR
San Francisco: Ahead of the upcoming 50th anniversary of mankind’s first successful trip to the moon, Google has recreated the Apollo 11 rocket’s command module with Augmented Reality (AR).
On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 was launched into space and on July 20, it landed the first two humans on the Moon — Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module Eagle’s pilot Buzz Aldrin.
To celebrate the milestone, when users would Google search Apollo 11 on an AR-enabled device, they would see an AR option in the Knowledge Panel and tapping on it would let users explore a 3D recreation of the command module, Engadget reported on Wednesday.