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Sports Illustrated’s First Augmented Reality Issue Brings Mount Everest Climb To Life

The cover story of this week’s issue of Sports Illustrated that features an inspirational climb of Mount Everest is able to come to life thanks to augmented reality.

The first augmented reality Sports Illustrated issue enables readers to scan select images and pages in the magazine with their mobile devices using the AR camera in the LIFE VR app to activate multimedia content.

So with amputee Jeff Glasbrenner on the cover as he climbs Everest, there is accompanying 360-degree video that can be unlocked. With a story on new Chicago Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky is video of a film session with the No.