Augmented Reality Games May Make Augmented Reality Interesting
Posted by Alex_Dunbar on Thursday, Aug 13, 2009
You know that process made popular by Hollywood where real things are blended with things generated by computers? It’s called augmented reality, and it’s actually really lame, in my opinion. Except! Videogame researchers are apparently pretty close to realizing it for their own purposes and now i’m mildly interested. Movie interpretations of augmented reality (AR) have been around forever, usually in dystopian futures where the real and the hyper-real have been blurred beyond distinction. But adding it to videogames is something different altogether.
In the past AR seemed destined to fail due to hardware impracticalities: no one wants to wear a helmet and lug around a giant backpack. The proliferation of mobile technology, however, has put the necessary hardware for fully functional AR literally into the palm of your hand. But does mini-ness make the concept any better? I’m hoping so, actually.
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BlueKachina 4 months ago
As compelling as AR video games are (check out the AR Drone), augmented reality has some real practical applications as well. Sixth sense technology such as those which Pranav Mistry (http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/) are bringing to the table could radically change the way we interact with the world around us.
thegreatone 5 months ago
www.recoders.net Share your demo code showcase your code, comment rate.
Orion 11 months ago
Skittle bombs are awesome!
tito 11 months ago
everything is better in video game form
standpoor 11 months ago
this would be awesome.
Hardware_Hank 11 months ago
Holodeck, here we come.
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