If you want fully interactive gaming, forget Nintendo Wii, Nvidia’s new Tegra mobile phone is the perfect console for ARhrrrr, a game created by Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab and the Savannah College of Art and Design.
ARhrrrr is an augmented reality shooter for mobile camera-phones, boasting highly innovative gameplay and replayability. Basically, the phone provides a window into a 3d town chock-full of zombies; just point the camera at the video-sensitive game map to mix the virtual and real world content. With the map on the table, fly around the 3d town to find and eliminate the zombies using the crosshair on the Tegra’s screen.
The game also includes civilians trapped in the town, who you must help escape by shooting zombies in their surroundings. From your vantage point in a helicopter overhead, you must destroy the zombies by tapping the screen to clear a path for the civilians to escape from the town.
Shoot all the zombies for the most points, but try to conserve ammo to gain even more points at the end of the level.
Watch out though, the zombies will fight back, throwing bloody organs to bring down your helicopter, although the player can move the phone quickly to dodge their attacks.
You can also use tasty Skittles as tangible inputs to the game, placing one on the board and shooting it to trigger an explosion, and the Tegra even detects the color of the Skittle and detonates a different kind of explosion, timed or instant, depending on whether it is orange or green.
Could this be the next big thing in interactive gaming? We won’t know until the technology becomes more main-stream and hits the shops.
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