Sportpong – It’s Fun Being a Paddle
In Switzerland you can play Pong. Yeah, I know, you can play Pong for about 30 years all around the world, but you could never play it like this – outside, with your legs serving as paddles.
3 vs 2 Rorschach kids… from Sportpong on Vimeo.
It’s nothing new either – you could have rent the setup for the game for at least a couple of years. The company behind it writes:
The setting is very simple: a reflector on each foot is the only physical tool to interact with Sportpong. The interface is integrated in the field which is projected on the floor. The players control the game with their feet, nothing else. This control is intuitive, naturalistic and very direct.
I really, really, can’t wait to try it out. Last year I had a session of Atari Pong (the first in twenty years) and enjoyed it immensely. This looks even better. Would be great having it on ARE or ISMAR.
More details on sportpong.ch via SwissMiss.
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Locatory – Play with Gamaray
March 16, 2010 - 01:07
Tags: augmented, augmented reality, Gamaray, Games, Handhelds and Cellphones, Locatory, Tourism and Outdoors
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Editor note: OOPS!Originally this post was scheduled for early December, but somehow I forgot to publish it. Sorry Locatory guys!——-As veteran readers of this blog surely know, official development of Gamaray, an AR browser for Android was terminat…
id Software’s “Rage” Coming to iPhone and iPad
March 15, 2010 - 18:56
Tags: app, app store, Apple, Games, id Software, ipad, iphone, News, rage
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Doom co-creator John Carmack recently told Kotaku that we can expect to see id Software’s latest epic work in progress, Rage, land on the iPhone and iPad.
”Apple doesn’t give us anything ahead of time either, so haven’t put hands on it ourselves, but we certainly are expecting to try to have our [...]
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Facebook and MySpace Social Gaming Scams Moving to iPhone?
March 15, 2010 - 13:19
Tags: Apple, apps, Development, Games, gaming scams, iphone, ipod touch, scams
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According to TechCrunch, some of the worst scams in social gaming are moving from Facebook and MySpace to the iPhone:
Users are offered virtual currency in exchange for answering a quiz or some other seemingly harmless offer. But once they click through and awswer the quiz questions they’re told they need to enter their [...]
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TiPb Apps 5.1: GodFinger for iPhone (GDC 2010)
March 15, 2010 - 13:19
Tags: App Store Apps, Apple, apps, Development, Games, godfinger, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, jason oberfest, ngmoco, tipb, TiPb Apps
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Live from GDC 2010, Rene talks with Jason Oberfest, VP of Social Applications at ngmoco about GodFinger for iPhone. Currently available in Canada [Free - iTunes link] with internationally release to follow soon, we get a sneak peak at playing deity to our own digital, mobile planet.
Video and a ton of screen shots after the [...]
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Weekly Linkfest
March 14, 2010 - 21:07
Tags: augmented, augmented reality, Junaio, linkfest, Metaio, stickybits, Wikitude
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Today, I’m limiting myself to six bullet points or less, let’s see how it goes:Augmented Planet have a short tutorial on how to build an AR application in one hour using the Wikitude API.Metaio had a grate week, launching a treasure hunt game at SXSW, …
Tony Hawk for iPhone “Real” and “Dropping Soon”
March 12, 2010 - 22:35
Tags: App Store Apps, Apple, apps, Games, iphone, News, tony hawk
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Tony Hawk for iPhone? Let’s just him do the tweeting… er… talking:
In the PR world, this is considered “going rogue,” but I’m too excited to contain it. This is real & dropping soon.
Happy?
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TiPb Apps 4.5: Pool Pro Online 3 for iPhone (GDC 2010)
March 12, 2010 - 14:23
Tags: App Store Apps, Apple, Games, gdc 2010, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, Jonathan Kromrey, namco, pool pro online 3, Quick Apps, TiPb Apps, unite sdk
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Live from GDC 2010, Rene talks with Jonathan Kromrey, General Manager of Apple Games at Namco about Pool Pro Online 3 [$4.99 - iTunes link] for iPhone and iPod touch… and coming to the iPad as well!
Namco’s Apple group, known as Order of Magnitude, started with the iPhone version but since much of the game [...]
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TiPb Apps 4.3: Street Fighter IV for iPhone (GDC 2010)
March 10, 2010 - 15:23
Tags: App Store Apps, Apple, apps, Capcom, Games, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, street fighter, street fighter iv, tezuka-san, TiPb Apps
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Live from GDC 2010 Rene talks to Tezuka-san, Street Fighter IV [$9.99 - iTunes link] iPhone producer for Capcom (via translator) about making Street Fighter for the iPhone and iPod touch, getting the controls right, and whether or not we might see Street Fighter for the iPad.
Tezuka-san points out how Capcom decided to make the [...]
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Frown! You Are Augmenting Reality!
March 9, 2010 - 23:58
Tags: augmented, augmented reality, Meiji University, research
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One of the hurdles in the future of augmented vision is avoiding sensory overload. In Tish Shute’s latest interview, Will Wright notes (and he is far from being the first one to allude to this problem):our senses are set up to know how to filter out 99…
iPhone No Longer “Mobile”, Big Enough to be Own Gaming Platform Now
March 9, 2010 - 00:02
Tags: Apple, Development, Games, Gdc, gdc 2010, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, News
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I already mentioned I’m on my way to GDC 2010 to cover the iPhone panel, and that iPhone gaming is getting big, so it’s interesting to see CNET reenforce just how big it’s getting:
strikingly absent among those 18 [Mobile Gaming] panels are any that deal with game development specifically for the iPhone. And [...]
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