Tweet Playing games is intrinsic to our nature, so naturally, gaming is a great introduction to augmented reality. Below are three different ways augmented reality is being used to get our gaming fix. AR Invaders Shooter games were the first breakout, relatively speaking, for the nascent technology. Yet I haven’t yet seen one that eliminates …
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Augmented Reality’s Console Upgrade
Tweet I’ve been watching the news from E3 with keen interest. First off, I’m a gamer, if you can’t tell. But I’m also wildly curious how augmented reality will shape the future of gaming. Now I haven’t seen any games that strictly use AR, but the direction consoles are taking shows how AR is shaping …
Virtual Sandbox (Sim City Meets Augmented Reality)
TweetA group of students at the National University of Singapore has developed an AR game similar to Sim City using VRML and ARToolKit. Virtual Sandbox is an educational software targeted at kids between the ages of 4-6. It provides children with an interactive learning environment for the learning of English vocabulary. By combining the concepts of …
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Facial Augmented Reality from Playstation Eye
TweetEngadget and Gizmodo have both reported this morning on the facial recognition technology called the Vision Library from Sony. It’s called the Vision Library and, once a face has been analyzed, the machine can tell it apart from others, determine orientation, identify gender, tell what expression that face is… expressing, and then superimpose some big-eyed …
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Eye Pet Game Trailer
TweetMy first thought after watching this video is: I wish I had a PS3. I think the console use of AR will help popularize the technology. While Sony’s motion sensing was one of the hot topics at E3, I think augmented reality should have had a more prominent place (of course, the Eye Pet requires …