Times Internet's augmented reality app Alive introduced a new service called Alive Pix which allows users to create augmented photos from their videos and share them with friends. Currently it is available only on Android devices and Times Internet says it will extend it to iOS devices soon. How it works For this you need to download the Alive app on your mobile device and shoot a video or upload an existing video from your gallery. You can select a photo from one of the frames in the video and use different themes. You can send this augmented photo across social networks or even print a copy. The receiver has to scan the shared photograph in the Alive app on their smartphone. Users can then watch the complete video in the app that the sender had tagged it with the photo. Note for Alive Pix the video needs to be 30 seconds in length or shorter through the app. We did test the application on the One Plus One, but it does take a quite a lot of time to cut a video to 30 seconds. In our test it took about a minute to cut down a two minute video and it doesn't feel instantaneous. Times Internet launched Alive app in December 2012 and claims it has registered 1.5 million downloads and does around 5 million scans every month now. When launched, Alive allowed readers of the Times of India newspaper to interact with a print medium, and get access to media…
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