Since September 2009, we have seen many quasi-augmented reality (AR) games on the iphone, some fun concept AR games (on other platforms and devices with no real commercial distribution). Today I had the pleasure to play the first truly fun, truly AR game on the iphone – and I loved it. It’s called AR Defender, [...]
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After a month long hiatus, it’s back! The weekly linkfest is here, with a fresh batch of links: Top headline of the week obviously goes to Qualcomm, which will launch a free vision based AR framework for Android this fall. In order to encourage developers to use their SDK, Qualcomm holds a contest for best [...]
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This week was dominated by the Parrot’s ARDrone, which is just about the coolest toy I’ve seen in a while, made even cooler by augmented reality from our friends at int13. Other AR news articles making the rounds this week: Techcrunch (1) discovers the VR versus AR Google trends graph. I think just about every [...]
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Yesterday, Total Immersion (TI) and Int13 – both French augmented reality companies – announced a strategic partnership, in which Int13 would help TI cover a major gap in its product line: Mobile Augmented Reality. A French kiss or a Russian bear hug? Instead of guessing, we went out to speak with Stéphane Cocquereaumont, president and [...]
Filed under: AR Engines | Tagged: int13, Kweekies, Mobile Augmented Reality, Stephane Cocquereaumont, total immersion | 5 Comments »
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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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. [...]
Filed under: AR Demos, AR Games | Tagged: Aikon Ghost Hunter, FastFoot-Challenge, Ghostwire, IMGA, int13, Kurai: The Dark Monolith, Kweekies, Mobile World Conference, MoveYa!, nternational Mobile Gaming Awards, Stephan Cocquereaumont | 1 Comment »
