Bundesliga: FC Schalke 04 launches "Schalke Quest" an augmented reality application

FC Schalke 04 (Bundesliga) has launched "Schalke Quest", an augmented reality application "born from the original wish of wanting to improve the stadium experience for the Schalke fans," said the club on 15/03/2019.

The new application developed with the German company ForwardGameAR, which is specialised in the design of augmented reality mobile applications, "offers users lots of interaction opportunities, including users being able to discover their local region, answering questions on the club's history or founding a virtual fan club," added the club.

Via the application which is available on all iOS (Apple) and Android (Google) devices "users can find virtual boxes in their immediate vicinity. These boxes contain questions on FC Schalke 04 and the club’s history. The users will then win rewards if they answer correctly - for example rare collectable cards of the first-team players. Users can swap their cards with other fans, so that they can complete their own collections. The fans can then exchange items in their virtual fan clubs too. Two players can also challenge each other…