Live from GDC: Augmented Reality at the Game Developers Conference – by the Numbers

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Ori Inbar

Reporting live from The Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, with my Augmented Reality filter on – here are the stats: 0 (Zero) Number of mentions of Augmented Reality during Sid Meier’s keynote – the game design legend behind “Civilization” Truth be told –  also missing from the keynote were mobile games, social games, casual [...]

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Your Favorite Augmented Reality Games Of All Time

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Ori Inbar

Our inaugural post from early 2008: “Top 10 AR demos that will…” sparked huge interest. Since then, we have witnessed loads of AR games swarming the market. Well, that may be an exaggeration – but the industry has certainly transitioned from delivering mere demos to actual games; from proof of concepts to commercial products; from [...]

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Weekly Linkfest

Posted on May 31, 2009 by rouli

Pizzas, Ghosts and Robots, all making augmented reality news this week: Ghostwire, the award winning game for the Symbian OS, is now coming to Nintendo DSi. Toy maker WowWee (the guys behind the Robosapien) planned to introduce a robotic augmented reality game where you drive the robot through an augmented environment. Alas “they thought it [...]

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Augmented Reality Game Poised to Win Game Award: Vote for Kweekie

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Ori Inbar

Stephan Cocquereaumont, president and lead developer of Int13, a French next-gen games studio for Smartphones, has just shared with me the latest video of his mobile Augmented Reality game – Kweekies: Kweekies is an Augmented Reality virtual pet game that allows gamers to interact with their pet by using the embedded camera of their Smartphone. [...]

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2008 Wrap Up: Top 10 Milestones in Augmented Reality

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Ori Inbar

2008 was a great year for augmented reality. This emerging technology is on a 15-plus-year-long journey from the lab and into the mainstream. With too many events to list, 2008 marks an important year in that quest. Here is the countdown of the top 10 most important AR milestones of 2008: 10) Otellini’s CES keynote [...]

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Augmented Reality Game Wins Best Mobile Game

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Ori Inbar

We have a winner. Nokia just announced the winner of its Mobile Game Innovation Challenge. And it’s all…augmented. I believe the first to break the news was the Earth Times. In our previous coverage of the competition, we spotted 6 out of the top 10 finalists as augmented reality games. It was a good day. [...]

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