DefconAR

Posted by Brandon "BMcC" McCartin Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:31:00 GMT


I just recently rediscovered Offworld, Brandon (the Brandon people are talking about when they say I look different in my press photo) Boyer’s excellent, excellent indie/weird gaming blog. I shall be diligently mining it for TIGS content from now on.

This video is of DefconAR, a super-cool Augmented Reality prototype from Introversion. Quoth programmer Leander Hambley’s forum post:

DefconAR was originally just gonna be a cool little toy for us to use in the office to wow people who came to see us. Who’d have to hide the Defcon screen from your boss when playing Office mode, if there isn’t even a window open for it? Have a small tile on your desk, wearing some AR goggles, and no one would know. Obviously there isn’t much to it at the moment, I still need to spice up the world rendering, and then add in some actual content, but just imagine how this would look with nukes flying over the globe in realistic arcs, and maybe even 3D mushroom clouds.
Yes, please, this is awesome. You know, if it were feasible, this sort of thing could make for a great Gamma... (GammAR?)

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  1. Novichock said about 1 hour later:

    IIRC there’s a Japanese company which is working on a AR H-toy.

  2. BMcC said about 1 hour later:

    Ha, it was only a matter of time!

  3. Jad said about 2 hours later:

    AR is SO the future. Holy shit I can imagine myself having such a ball with a layer of virtual shenanigans on top of my reality :D

    also different kinds of communication via AR messages and god knows what. Also this looks fantastic, heh!

  4. Sergio said about 3 hours later:

    I’m pretty sure that AR-H-toy has already been released. Maybe a year ago. Was it some sort of cube/webcam setup?

  5. PHeMoX said about 7 hours later:

    Awesome, I’d like to play that defconAR version for sure. I hope they make a full game out of it, it has innovation written all over.

  6. Miguel said about 12 hours later:

    Sweet! Hiro? I wonder if that’s a little reference to the 3D globe in Snowcrash.

  7. Lyx said about 13 hours later:

    that, plus some interesting tricks for input-interfacing would open up an entirely new way of gaming. Especially multiplayer in the same room around a table for example.

  8. IceNine said about 16 hours later:

    That stood out to me too Miguel haha.

  9. Vegetable said about 16 hours later:

    BlackMagic, anyone? http://www.hitlabnz.org/wiki/BlackMagic_Book

    It’s been at least three years since this program was made available, so I’m surprised it took someone this long to finally put it to good use. Kudos to the author!

  10. Vegetable said about 16 hours later:

    Oh, and for those who can’t be bothered downloading it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfFLnsVpZUg

  11. rz. said about 17 hours later:

    i’m so lost. what exactly IS this?!

  12. BMcC said about 19 hours later:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_Reality

    It’s nuts.

  13. Adam Atomic said about 21 hours later:

    that’s so pringles

  14. BMcC said 1 day later:

    A spin-off of That’s So Raven about a kid who plays Marvel vs. Capcom all day.

  15. Anthony Flack said 1 day later:

    I’d rather see it done with a spherical touch-screen LCD panel…

  16. Lord Tim said 1 day later:

    Hello World?

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