Augmented Environments Lab
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December 11th, 2009
The AEL is a research lab at Georgia Tech investigating the design and implementation of augmented- and mixed-reality experiences.
A recent project they have done in collaboration with different project partners is ARhrrrr!
ARhrrrr is an augmented reality shooter for mobile camera-phones. The phone provides a window into a 3d town overrun with zombies. When you point the camera at a special game map, you get a mix of virtual and real world content.
While shooters are not really my favourite reference projects for such applications I see a lot of possibilities to augment also games and open an new dimension of games, board games, serious games and edutainment.
It is important to know that it is based on the new NVidia’s Tegra platform.
At the moment, it is all just concept. But we will se the devices soon out there that are capable of running it. But once Tegra actually launches in more devices, we will start seeing some real breakthrough games on mobile devices.
