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 […]
White Wolf co-founder takes the Darkling Plain to Kickstarter
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 […]
Tekken goes virtual CCG and avoids the horror of the button mash
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 […]
Doctor Who: Cleric Wars augmented reality game
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 […]
Zaphats and augmented reality clothing for LARPs
Augmented reality clothing brands, like Zappar, certainly aren’t restricted to making fashion to be adapted by LARPers. I suspect, for now, they may be restricted to fashion for geeks though. What a piece of AR clothing does is transform, on screen, when viewed with the right app. The best way to describe it is to […]
The Oculus Rift is augmented reality for the living room
The Oculus Rift is a level beyond the Kinect. It promises to bring cost effective, good quality, augmented reality into the living room.
E3: Wonderbook: Book of Spells
Sony and JK Rowling are teaming up for the first content for Wonderbook. From JK Rowling’s point of view it’s an extension of Pottermore. Wonderbook is an augmented reality accessory for the PlayStation 3 that Sony announced, tonight, at E3 2012. To use the Wonderbook: Book of Spells players will use their PS Move as […]
Augmented Reality CCG – Drako
I remember Eye of Judgement well. I never played it – but I saw friends beginning to dabble with it. It was a collectable card game that the PS Eye turned into something special. The camera would scan the cards being used in the game and provide some pretty cool animations. The game was closed […]
The Aeon Project: Beyond AR
The Aeon Project came in first in the Imagina Awards for Best Design and Communication. It’s about going beyond AR as we practise it today – and we certainly use Augmented Reality today in numerous phone apps and with Microsoft’s Kinect. The following is a relatively short YouTube that highlights and sells the concepts. If […]
Augmented reality takes shopping to the next level
I’m just back from The Gadget Show Live. It was fun but one of the common observations made was that it seemed to lack on future tech. Future tech is out there though. A good example is Tissot’s Augemented Reality window at Harrods in London. There’s an app too. Check out www.tissot.ch/reality to download the […]
