Leading the Yankees to a sizable lead in the American League East apparently isn't enough for Joe Girardi. So the manager is branching out…into augmented reality gaming.
At a launch party at Modell's in Times Square Wednesday morning, Girardi debuted a new iPhone and Android game he helped create alongside phone app development company Appetizer Mobile.
The app is called Portalball, a sci-fi themed baseball game that allows players to hit and throw balls into, and catch balls out of, glowing blue portals that pop up on the screen. The gameplay is superimposed over what the device's camera captures in front of the player — "360 degrees in your own environment," CEO and developer Jordan Edelson said.