A Sneak Peek at ARf, an AR Virtual Pet game for the iPhone

Posted on November 28, 2008 by admin

We’ve been working on an AR virtual pet game on the iPhone; it won’t be ready to release for a while, both because it’s not done, but also because Apple doesn’t have an official API for camera access (preventing us from putting this on the store).

Right now, this is mostly an experiment with different kinds of interactions the game might use, as well as testing the AR technology. So, you can use the touch screen to direct ARf around, touch him and scratch him. Since there is a lot of interest in AR and games on the iPhone, we wanted to show folks what we’re up to and some of what’s possible.

AR Karaoke: Acting in Your Favorite Scenes

Posted on October 6, 2005 by admin

Maribeth Gandy, Blair MacIntyre, Peter Presti, Steven Dow, Jay David Bolter, Brandon Yarbrough, and Nigel O’Rear. “AR Karaoke: Acting in Your Favorite Scenes” In The Fourth International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2005), October 6-8, 2005, Vienna, Austria. Continue reading →

Butterfly effect: an augmented reality puzzle game

Posted on October 6, 2005 by admin

Abstract

Butterfly effect is a 3D puzzle game using augmented reality. The key motivation was to create a game that leverages the structure of the physical world during gameplay without requiring the computer to have a detailed model of the space. The butterflies are virtual, but the space the player navigates is physical. The player travels her environment, collecting the butterflies. For butterflies that are out of reach, the player can rotate the virtual world in 90 degree chunks about an arbitrary axis to bring them to an accessible location.

Reference

Norton, M. MacIntyre, B. In Proceedings. The Fourth International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2005), October 6-8, 2005, Vienna, Austria [PDF]