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Mirrorscape launches its AR VTT RPG app

July 28, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mirrorscape has been developed over four years and had more than 4,000 users in the beta test.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: Augmented reality, Dungeons & Dragons, mirrorscape, pathfinder, starfinder

Blast Space Invaders out of the sky, with the new smartphone AR game available to download now!

July 18, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

It’s been 45 years since Space Invaders was released, and now they’ve just had a major augmented reality upgrade – thanks to Google and Taito! That’s right; following on from the success of games such as Pokémon Go and Ingress, the latest game to get the AR treatment is this 1978 classic, available right now on […]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: Augmented reality, Space Invaders

Pathfinder and Starfinder will develop into augmented reality with Mirrorscape

July 11, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Open gaming is our vision, and the addition of Paizo’s legendary set of titles will further enhance the experience available on Mirrorscape, while also giving Paizo’s widespread and immensely loyal fanbase more ways to play.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Augmented reality, mirrorscape, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, starfinder

Niantic stats update: Pokemon Go is still strong, but how is Ingress Prime doing?

March 12, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native got chatting with VPNOverview after they did a study on which apps Americans delete the most often about Niantic’s augmented reality games Pokemon Go and Ingress.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: Augmented reality, ingress, niantic, pokemon go, stats

D&D superstar Joe Manganiello fronted ARcana Kickstarts, a new way to play tabletop RPGs

March 30, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Kickstarter is busy with software options for tabletop gamers, and the competitive virtual tabletop space has a healthy and challenging overlap with augmented tabletops.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: Augmented reality, Joe Manganiello, kickstarters, mirrorscape, virtual tabletop

The best of both (all?) worlds: Dragon Drop AR for Tabletop RPGs

January 30, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are no cards or markers to cover your table with, but Dragon Drop can still generate an augmented reality battle map and minis for your table.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: Augmented reality, battle mats, kickstarters

D&D’s limited AR pins are available in the UK as Zavvi boost fashion range

September 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here in the UK, you’ll be able to buy the very same Pinfinity D&D 12 class pins from Zavvi. In fact, you can get your pre-orders in today.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Augmented reality, Dungeons & Dragons

Ray Winninger promises new physical formats for D&D; what could they be?

June 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Some of D&D’s new books will be in a print format we’ve never seen before.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Augmented reality, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

Hasbro’s new “go to a location and adventure there” AR game isn’t D&D – it’s Transformers

June 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Niantic, the people who make Pokemon Go possible and who built their infrastructure on one of the world’s first location-based augmented reality game, have announced Transformers: Heavy Metal.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: Augmented reality, hasbro, niantic, Transformers

AR success Foundry Six comes to tabletop RPGs with Arealm

May 31, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tech company Foundry Six work with companies like Sony and Paramount on Augmented Reality. Today they’ve launched a Kickstarter for Arealm, and it is targeted at tabletop gamers who use video chat.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: Augmented reality, kickstarters

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