Comments on: Mattel Launches Augmented Toys at Comic Con http://gamesalfresco.com/2009/07/23/mattel-launches-augmented-toys-at-comic-con/ In Pursuit of the Ultimate Augmented Reality Application Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:17:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Games, Goggles, and Going Hollywood…How AR is Changing the Entertainment Landscape: Talking with Brian Selzer, Ogmento | UgoTrade http://gamesalfresco.com/2009/07/23/mattel-launches-augmented-toys-at-comic-con/#comment-4644 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:38:48 +0000 http://gamesalfresco.com/?p=2072#comment-4644 [...] Immersion began 10 years ago in the quiet, lonely, hours before the dawn of an AR industry.  But Total Immersion’s AR toys for Mattel and augmented reality for Topps baseball cards fired CNet writer Daniel Terdiman up enough to say, [...]

]]> By: Thomas K Carpenter http://gamesalfresco.com/2009/07/23/mattel-launches-augmented-toys-at-comic-con/#comment-4232 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:42:02 +0000 http://gamesalfresco.com/?p=2072#comment-4232 If they can port the game to a console, I think it could stand a chance to be a hit, but as an experienced gamer, AR doesn’t shine its best on a PC because of the space. Console games have the proper enviroment for a breakout AR game.

And it pains me to say this because I’ve always been a hardcore PC gamer. Its the same reason the Wii wouldn’t work well on a PC — space.

I’m still rooting for it though. I’d like to be proved wrong.

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