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Augmented Reality Gaming on PS Vita System

By merging the real world and the game world, augmented reality helps you discover a new way to play - and PS Vita System is ready to take this augmented reality out of your home so you can take it wherever you want to go. Each of these great Augmented Reality games is available to download on the PlayStation^®Store.

Table Mini Golf

Tee off in style and polish your putting technique on amazing Table Mini Golf courses that spring into life on any flat surface! Choose your player, grab your putter and head out onto the course to show off your flair as a mini golfer – because being the best isn’t just about getting the ball into the hole, it’s about doing it in style too.

Table Ice Hockey™

Welcome to Table Ice Hockey™, the fastest, hardest hitting AR Play experience on the PS Vita system! Lay down your AR Play cards and bring the world of Ice Hockey to life in front of your PS Vita system. Customize your teams, players and game modes including single player, 16-team tournaments, and ad-hoc multiplayer games. Are you ready to be named the Table Ice Hockey World Champion?

Cliff Diving

Take the plunge with daredevil Diver Dan and use your AR Play Cards to build a series of high diving boards wherever you are. Perform elaborate dives and try to splash down safely to help Dan earn the prize money on offer. 

Fireworks

Light up the sky with a spectacular firework display. Detonate fireworks and perform explosive combos to earn special bonuses and work your way up the Fireworks online leaderboard.

Table Soccer

Use your AR Play Cards to create your own soccer stadium and enjoy the beautiful game on any flat surface. Take on friends via Ad Hoc Mode and compete in one-off matches and table top tournaments.

PulzAR™

Protect our Earth from incoming asteroids with PulzAR™. This unique augmented reality puzzle game lets you re-direct a laser beam to a target using reflectors, splitters and color filters. The ultimate goal is to re-direct the laser beam to a final target that will ignite a rocket aimed toward incoming asteroids!

 

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http://us.playstation.com/psvita/apps/psvita-app-ar.html

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Some projects done using Goblin XNA

 

 

 

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http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ohan/ 

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Augmented Reality in Games: The Future?

Augmented reality gaming of the past

The first example of augmented reality gaming was in 2002, coming out of South Australia.

Using Quake as a base, in this video we see the user shoot enemies appearing from a car park (the reality). As you can see, the technology is primitive and very basic; thus augmented reality gaming was shelved until technology would be released to accommodate it…which brings us to the present.

If you are familiar with gaming terminology, ‘augmented reality gaming’ is a phrase you might have heard thrown about in the last few years. Augmented reality takes the real world in real-time and enhances it with computer generated features in the form of sound, imagery and video. Pretty cool, right? Well, one of the main ways that augmented reality can be utilized is through video gaming; you can bet your bottom dollar there will be a market for it! Millions of gamers would pay top end to have a device which successfully merges reality with digital reality; just imagine this:

Question is, is this concept as distant as having a real-life ‘holodeck’ from Star Trek? Perhaps not. This article takes an investigative look into augmented reality gaming; where it came from, where it is now and where it is going.

Augmented Reality gaming of the present

A lot of the augmented reality games that we have in our current day are perhaps more gimmicky than ground-breaking; but a step in the right direction nonetheless. Using smartphones, iPads, PS Vitas etc. we are now able to take the world in real time and add an element of augmented reality to gaming.

source :

http://idaconcpts.com/2012/10/26/augmented-reality-in-games-the-future/

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Cellular Gaming's

Qualcomm demos augmented reality and peer-to-peer tech, tries to punch cellular gaming's block off (video)

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It's just a tablecloth and a piece of paper, until you pull out a Nexus One , at which point it magically becomes an arena where toy robots fire off punches.  isn't anything new,Augmented reality  of course, but  Qualcomm seems determined to bring it to cell phones in a big way -- launching an AR game studio, sponsoring a $200,000 developer challenge, and announcing a free software development kit (which will see open beta this fall) all on the same day. The company partnered with Mattel to build the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots proof-of-concept you see above using that very SDK, and you'll find a hilarious video of grown men pretending to have the time of their lives with it right after the break.

However, augmented reality is only half of Qualcomm's mobile gaming plan -- a rep told Pocket-lint games like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots are only financially viable if they can work across platforms . To that end, the company also demonstrated a simple three-player peer-to-peer title, but with -- get this -- a Nexus One (over Bluetooth)Nokia N900, a  (over WiFi) and a Dell Latitude laptop all playing the same synchronous game. To commemorate this mishmash of awesome, the company funded another video; listen to an individual with a ludicrously bad accent give you the play-by-play after the break. Oh, and find some press releases, too.

source  :

hhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/06/qualcomm-demos-augmented-reality-and-peer-to-peer-tech-tries-to/

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