Reporting live from GDC 2009 in San Francisco: it’s just getting better! From Blair’s team at GA Tech: Zombie Attack on Nvidia Tegra From Beyond Reality at the Dutch pavilion: Pit Strategy Stay tuned for more…
Filed under: AR Events, AR Games | Tagged: AR Games, Beyond Reality, Blair MacIntyre, GDC 2009, Pit Strategy, ZOmbie Attack | 3 Comments »
An important message from Mark Billinghurst about ArToolKit:hirokazu On Tuesday March 17th, Hirokazu Kato recevied the 2009 IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award for his development of the ARToolKit tracking library. This was given at the IEEE VR 2009 conference, the premier academic conference for virtual reality. The VR Technical Achievement Award is a [...]
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In front of a packed room, Blair skips the typical introduction to augmented reality (he knows his audience) and dives right into demonstrating how fun AR is. What better video to explain it in a game conference than showing Roku’s Reward. Blair explains the essence of AR play: tight integration between the real and the [...]
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Robert Tercek Chairman of GDC Mobile kicks of the Mobile summit with “Welcome to the Next Level! “ He speaks about the state of the mobile gaming world (looks much better than last year) and even spends a moment on our favorite topic: Virtual layers superimposed on a fictitious reality. He admits it has only [...]
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I am on a flight to San Francisco, barely dodging a thunder storm, for what I expect to be an inspiring week at the Game Developer Conference . I have been to hundreds of conferences in my career – GDC is one that usually satisfies the crave for inspiration – big time. Here’s what I’ll [...]
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Gamasutra recently announced a competition for best game ideas. Games of 2020. The winners are already in and their games are mostly…augmented. Check out these 4 games: House Chores by Wesley Wiebe. It builds on the idea that if you cleverly use game pleasures people would be willing to tolerate almost anything – just to [...]
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Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, and Katie Salen have just published a paper: Moving Learning Games Forward. With 60 pages strong, it’s more of a mini book than a “paper” – but hey, who’s counting? I argued before that Learning Games should be the first pin we target in the Augmented Reality bowling alley (taking a [...]
Filed under: AR Education | Tagged: Eric Klopfer, Katie Salen, Learning games, Scot Osterweil, Serious Games | 1 Comment »
New York Times unveils this story about Total Immersion‘s new foray into trading card games. Total Immersion partnered with Topps to add 3D animation on top of their baseball cards using your web cam. Rouli and Tobias have already mused about it this morning (Old World folks always wake up earlier…). Here’s the video video… [...]
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