Google Spotlight Stories comes to iOS

Google’s excellent Spotlight Stories app has been launched for iOS now, after spending a while exclusively on the Google Play Store. The app requires iOS 8.0 or later, and will work only with iPhone 5s or above.

Google Spotlight Stories plays animated stories with 2D and 3D images. You can look around the scenes by rotating and turning your phone, giving a more realistic experience at the end. Here is a description of the app:

Immerse yourself in a world of storytelling made just for mobile. Engineers and critically-acclaimed filmmakers are bringing stories to life using the latest advances in mobile technology. Using 3D and 2D animation, 360° spherical cinema-quality video, sound sphere audio and sensor fusion techniques, the screen is now a window into a story that unfolds all around you. Look anywhere, follow individual characters, watch it over again and again. It’s a little different each time. Google Spotlight Stories is your mobile movie theatre.

Google is using technology developed by Motorola’s ATAP – Advanced Technology And Products division, which Google chose to retain while selling Motorola Mobility to Lenovo.

Google could start charging for stories in the future, so you may want to go ahead and grab the app and the stories available for free currently.

Download Google Spotlight Stories from the iTunes store for free.

Download Google Spotlight Stories from the Google Play store for free.