Augmented Environments Lab

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

November 28th, 2008 | Category: ARf on the iPhone

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.

YouTube Preview Image 26 comments

26 Comments so far

  1. chusky November 28th, 2008 11:38 pm

    Arf, the app i am looking for. Every nights before to shut off my mac, i search in google : augmented reality iphone.
    Today my dreams seems come true. Cant wait to try it :P Hope yo see it soon on cydia :)
    Great job !

  2. blair November 28th, 2008 11:48 pm

    Thanks for your kind words.

    Alas, I doubt we’ll ever do anything with cracked phones … if anything, I’m much more interested in creating free apps that we can give away on the iTunes store (once their is a “approved” method of getting at the camera). It’ll provide an amazing way to do some “large scale” user and game concept testing!

  3. Steps Towards Making Augmented Reality a Reality? « OUseful.Info, the blog… December 3rd, 2008 7:51 pm

    [...] PS see also AR virtual pet game for iPhone. [...]

  4. robert December 8th, 2008 6:55 am

    Will there be an open source publishing of your code or parts of your code?

  5. blair December 8th, 2008 7:36 am

    At some point, but not very soon. First, not all of the code we are using is freely distributable (e.g., StbTracker). Second, we’d like to finish the “game” and evaluate it before making it available. This will all happen over the next year.

  6. mathsniper December 13th, 2008 10:29 am

    hi blair, how did you get the source code of stbTracker?
    I have a problem of developing cell phone program using artoolkit.

  7. blair December 13th, 2008 11:28 am

    We are collaborating with the folks at Graz and Imagination on some projects, so we are lucky enough to have some of their software.

    It is for sale; you can find out more by going to http://www.imagination.at/

  8. Annie Ok : tangent » ARf: Augmented Reality Virtual Pet game for iPhone - Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab January 8th, 2009 12:45 pm

    [...] Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab: We’ve been working on an AR virtual pet game on the iPhone;  it won’t be ready to release for [...]

  9. augmented.org » Blog Archive » his bARk is worse than his bit January 30th, 2009 12:12 pm

    [...] people from Georgia Tech made a nice demo using the iPhone and releasing a virtual dog into your living room. You can pet [...]

  10. ARF: iphone augmented reality « Telco@Me February 2nd, 2009 9:52 am

    [...] ARF: iphone augmented reality By giotilab fonte: [...]

  11. Augmented Reality | Flash Goblin April 8th, 2009 10:31 am

    [...] is an example of it on the iPhone via the Augmented Environments Lab [...]

  12. Stephenie April 22nd, 2009 2:43 pm

    Good words.

  13. Jose May 4th, 2009 2:27 pm

    Nice Job!
    How did you get access to the iphone camera? I’m want to try some of my homemade ARToolkit apps on the iphone but I couldn’t access the cam :(

  14. The Virtual Games May 5th, 2009 3:19 pm

    Virtual pets and toys market is growing. It’ll be even more powerfull in the future.

  15. rassall May 13th, 2009 2:15 am

    Hello,

    How I settings arttolkitplus s60 library,path to carbide c++ 2.0? I can’t able to run simple cube ar program into carbide c++ 2.0? tnay suggestion/any procrdure..i have already installed SDK,Carbide c++ 2.0 also dowanload cartoolkitplus S60.plz suggest me….

  16. Martin Hemmer July 10th, 2009 7:53 pm

    one more nice topic in your blog and nice comments too keep it up, by the way Graz is a very lovely city I enjoyed it so much

  17. Augmented reality virtual pet on the iphone « Timi will share… July 14th, 2009 3:54 am

    [...] is a first peek at an augmented reality virtual pet game being developed for the iPhone in the GVU Center’s Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia [...]

  18. Timi Stoop-Alcala July 14th, 2009 4:03 am

    this is awesome! you know the first thing that came to my mind was that i wish i could play again with my departed cats via this game. not trying to do a pet cemetery here, but i really think a feature like that would make this even more valuable for a lot of people. if there was some way to create the pets based on our real pets’ image then it would be like taking care of our demised pets even if only in the virtual world.

  19. Virtual Baseball, Pet and Green Creature « Bit Rebels July 22nd, 2009 8:01 am

    [...] ARF – Virtual Pet App for iPhone 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. [...]

  20. Vinny August 31st, 2009 12:36 pm

    I love this game lol its sooo cool

  21. Matt August 31st, 2009 1:53 pm

    Great application.

    I’m curious if development work is still active, and if so, what technique you are using to access the live camera feed on the iphone. The current API still does not appear to allow direct live camera access, but you mention you’re using a non-jailbroken phone.

    Thanks!

  22. Joost November 18th, 2009 12:56 pm

    I’m also curious.. should be able to port it to the current iPhone API? Any progress on this project still.. drop me a line!

  23. blair November 18th, 2009 2:52 pm

    No, you can’t port to the current SDK. It allows graphics to be overlaid on video, but not to access the video. So, we can’t do computer vision on the markers to find out where they are.

  24. Augmented Reality Virtual Pet on the iPhone - pixelelement.com December 14th, 2009 12:06 pm

    [...] Click here for more information on the project. Share this post with your friends in your favorite social network: [...]

  25. Augmented Environments Lab » A Sneak Peek at ARf, an AR Virtual Pet game for the iPhone : onkeloki January 6th, 2010 7:46 pm

    [...] Augmented Environments Lab » A Sneak Peek at ARf, an AR Virtual Pet game for the iPhone] Januar 7, 2010 | abgelegt unter [...]

  26. Augmented Reality Virtual Pet on the iPhone | Augmented Reality Blog | Augmented Reality Research January 21st, 2010 9:33 am

    [...] visit  http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/lab/2008/11/28/arf-iphone-peek/ for more information. Share and [...]

Leave a reply