<\/a><\/p>\nThe other component of the ReEvolution is Marvel AR, a smartphone app that lets users see DVD extra-style content when aimed at a printed comic book using augmented reality. It’s an interesting strategy, providing the ability for bonus content even for those who prefer to read their books on paper instead of on a screen.<\/p>\n
It’s an interesting two-pronged approach to digital comics, making digital comics harder to pirate while making them more feature-filled, while at the same time giving more functionality to the more traditional paper comic. It doesn’t do much to address the pricing issues of comic books — $4 a pop is a bit much for a digital download, when I can watch an entire movie for $3 — but it is an interesting step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the past week, Marvel Comics’s new initiative, Infinite Comics, has been the biggest secret this side of Daredevil’s secret identity (which if that’s too much of an in-joke for you, you really should be reading Mark Waid’s excellent Daredevil series). Today, at\u00a0SXSW Interactive\u2019 s ScreenBurn Arcade, the company that brought you the X-Men, Spider-Man, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,45,1920,40],"tags":[2307,2306,2302,2309,376,2299,1642,2308,2304,379,2303,108,2300,2313,60,2305,2301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9344,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions\/9344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}