Why limit yourself to your small screen on the phone? Run EIS-AR, an app by McDonald’s Deutschland LLC, best experienced on your PC or Mac with BlueStacks, the world’s #1 Android emulator.
EIS-AR is basically a little AR companion for the book Ice – Survival in Extreme Worlds. It is not a standalone game, more like a way to make the pages come alive. Someone points a camera at the pages that have the orange AR+ icon with the penguin and suddenly there are 3D scenes on top of the paper. On PC with BlueStacks it works fine with a webcam, and the bigger screen makes the models easier to look at. Mouse clicks act like taps, and scrolling or trackpad gestures handle zoom and rotation well enough. The app expects sound to be on because some scenes use audio cues, so speakers up. There is a simple left menu to hop back to the main screen, restart an activity, or read quick tips about the mini games.
What stands out is how approachable it feels. There are buttons floating in the AR view you can tap, a slider on some models that flips between different states, like showing a scene before and after a change. It shows off cold regions of the world, animals, ice formations, that sort of thing, and it keeps things playful rather than textbook dry. Just note that it really needs the physical book, since those pages are the triggers. Good lighting helps the camera recognize the markers faster, and once it locks in, the models sit stable on the page. It is light on the device, loads quick, and feels like a neat way to explore a science book without fiddly controls getting in the way.
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