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Tarot goes augmented reality: The Fantôme multidimensional deck

May 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The 78-card Tarot deck is inspired by the Rider Waite deck illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith in 1909 and yet intertwined with the latest technology with an app suitable for beginners and more experienced readers.

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

SendingStone is a video chat solution for VTTs

April 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

SendingStone is a web-based solution designed to rid you of the jumble of other apps you might use to recreate the tabletop experience online.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: Augmented reality, virtual tabletop

Cartographr funds on Kickstarter: Augmented reality app for tabletop RPGs

March 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Co-founders Joanna and Rivelle have led a successful Kickstarter campaign for an augmented reality app called Cartographr.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: Augmented reality, kickstarters

Augmented reality app Ardent Roleplay land Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest

May 6, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ever wanted to have a Lovecraftian horror rise through the gaming table to scare the daylights out of your Cthulhu investigators? Ardent’s the app for that.

Filed Under: Mobile, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Augmented reality, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, runequest

Minecraft meets Ingress: Minecraft Earth

May 17, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Minecraft Earth walking down a sidewalk might be a walk through a diamond mine and a visit to the park might be race through skirmishing skeletons.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: Augmented reality, Minecraft

Moglan’s D&D augmented reality items deck struggles on Kickstarter

November 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ben Doran’s idea is to help DMs put the magic back into magic chests or even those chests you get at the end of a battle. Rather than risk forgetting to put some exotic loot in your notes for the Moglan magic item cards let the players get a more visual experience and something to […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Augmented reality, cards, Dungeon & Dragons, kickstarters

Google spin-off launches new Pokemon augmented reality game

September 10, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Niantic, the company behind Ingress, recently scored its independence from Google. Players had previously been worried about that the End Game project was… a rival game, not an end to Ingress, Niantic had (mostly) successfully reassured people. Then players had life after Google to worry about. The launch of Pokemon Go serves both to reassure […]

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

White Wolf co-founder takes the Darkling Plain to Kickstarter

July 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stewart Wieck co-founded White Wolf and co-created the original World of Darkness. It was Wieck who was the editor-in-chief and co-founder of White Wolf with his brother Steve. It was in 1990 that the company merged with Lion Rampant, publisher of Ars Magica and he and Lion Rampant’s Mark Rein*Hagen became co-owners of the White […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Augmented reality, kickstarters, Nocturnal Media, Stewart Wieck, white wolf

Tekken goes virtual CCG and avoids the horror of the button mash

April 4, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you suspect you would enjoy Tekken and the in-game mythology that’s built up over the years if you could only avoid the horror of the button mash. I don’t mean randomly pumping the console controller, I mean learning the complex, button bashing, sequences that you need to muscle memory out in order to play […]

Filed Under: Mobile, PC Tagged With: Augmented reality, ccg, tekken, trailers

Doctor Who: Cleric Wars augmented reality game

October 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a free app called Cleric Wars for the iPhone and some Android phones that looks interesting. The Clerics in question are ones we’ve seen on Doctor Who. In The Time of Angels we had military Clerics from the Church investigating an area that turned out to be rich in Weeping Angels. This AR game […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: Augmented reality, doctor who, Weeping Angels

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