ARhrrrr!
ARhrrrr is an augmented reality shooter for mobile camera-phones. The phone provides a window into a 3d town overrun with zombies. Point the camera at our special game map to mix virtual and real world content. Civilians are trapped in the town, and must escape before the zombies eat them! From your vantage point in a helicopter overhead, you must shoot the zombies to clear the path for the civilians to get out. Watch out though as the zombies will fight back, throwing bloody organs to bring down your copter. Move the phone quickly to dodge them. You can also use Skittles as tangible inputs to the game, placing one on the board and shooting it to trigger an explosion.
By merging graphics with props in the physical world, handheld Augmented Reality games pull the player through the small screen and into a larger merged play-space. Our primary motivation for this AR game was to explore fast-action first-person augmented reality, where the camera controls and movement that would typically require a mouse and keyboard are handled directly by simply moving the device. Advanced tracking technology allows the player to quickly zoom in and out and view the world at steep angles, making this a highly interactive and engaging game. Finally, we wanted to test tangible input mechanics, such as placing and shooting Skittles to trigger in-game events.
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Brilliant idea! I’ve blogged about it at http://www.notjustreality.com/lead-story/51-augmented-zombies-arhrrrr/
Is this just a proof of concept for Indiecade or are you planning to get it into production?
Right now it’s just a concept demonstration, but I’d love to take this (and similar games) into production; unfortunately, there’s no commercial device that can run such stuff yet. So, nothing will happen in that regard till there’s Tegra-based devices (or something similarly powerful) available to run it. And, of course, it would have to be financially viable.
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i could imagine this doing well in arcades
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ARhrrrr!: Juego de zombies de realidad aumentada (Tegra)…
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The use of skittles was a GENIUS product tie-in. I award you 1,000 points.
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Curious: is it compatible with M&Ms too?
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[...] – Zune HD uses NVIDIA Tegra processor Read – Augmented Environments Lab: [...]
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That is awesome ! I’ve seen other AR games before but nothing so nicely polished.
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not gonna lie, I thought AR was stupid until I saw that game. That was pretty cool.
Oh shoot imagine what those tabletop games would be like. Warhammer 40K?
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아기뚱의 생각…
Augmented reality를 이용한 핸드폰 게임 ARhrrrr! 동영상을 보았다. cam을 이용한 3D 카드나 입체인형은 보았지만 이정도로 발전할 수 있을 줄이야. 역시 Device의 발전이 중요하긴 한가부다. (아이템인 Skittles에 눈이 똥그래졌다)…
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Blair, are you sure you couldn’t get this to work in some sense on a smart phone? Android has OpenGL built in, and the T-Mobile/HTC/Google G1 seems to have all the necessary sensors. With Layar demonstrating an augmented reality browser on the G1, it seems like your game could be scaled to work, too.
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[...] ARhrrrr is an augmented reality (AR) shooter for mobile camera-phones, created at Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab and the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD-Atlanta). The phone provides a window into a 3d town overrun with zombies. Point the camera at the special game map to mix virtual and real world content. Civilians are trapped in the town, and must escape before the zombies eat them! From your vantage point in a helicopter overhead, you must shoot the zombies to clear the path for the civilians to get out. Watch out though as the zombies will fight back, throwing bloody organs to bring down your copter. Move the phone quickly to dodge them. You can also use Skittles as tangible inputs to the game, placing one on the board and shooting it to trigger an explosion. [...]
[...] ARhrrrr is an augmented reality shooter for mobile camera-phones tied into a game where you shoot at zombies. An example of fast-action first-person augmented reality, ARhrrr lets you control the game by simply moving the mobile device as well as use “tangible input mechanics” (in this case, Skittles) to trigger in-game events. [...]
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Android doesn’t allow you to do native code yet, does it? So, we can’t do computer vision on the image. Plus, it’s camera (like the old iPhone) is poor quality. I think the next gen of Android phones may support JNI and a JIT, plus run on better hardware. That’ll be cool. Of course, we’d still need a real game engine to entice me to switch; Unity is ten kinds of awesome wrapped into a nice editor.
BTW, wikitude and Layar are pretty limited and not much more than tech demos; I don’t think either will actually get used much (although they’ll probably get downloaded a lot and get a lot of press).
I think some credit is due to an earlier game that had much to do with the inspiration for this game.
Joe Warpin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_igJZWtIU came first last fall and I worked on it.
Fair point, Andrew. It definitely was an inspiration, and did serve as one of the starting points for the game.
Hi Blair,
Can you port it to the new Iphone GS (should be quite close to the tegra ) ? you could sell this app very easly and that would finance a more sophisticated game that could run on a more powerful Iphone (Apple release one model per year).
I would love to buy it, print a map on my printer, create map/games and share them/ fight online.
would be fun.
I imagine very well a map of my current office and my curent boss as target
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Cheers
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If apple provides a way to get at the live video stream, unlike the current phones, then yes, we could do this. We are actually working on the iPhone (see our other youtube videos), and would be happy to give away some of our games on the store if we could do it. Time will tell!
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This is just amazing. I love it.
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Nice work!!
Did I hear some C4 demo sounds in there? Me thinks yes!
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I own an iphone and i am wondering about when it will come out and how one would attain the map thing
-lovethe idea
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How about getting this game onto Windows Mobile? The HTC Touch HD2 has a snapdragon processor rated at 1 GHz, a 5mp camera, and 480×800 wvga resolution. Superior specs to the iPhone 3gs, and more importantly no Apple approval process for Windows Mobile apps.
It is running on Windows Mobile, actually; the Tegra dev kit runs version 6.5. Unfortunately, (a) I don’t have any high end production WinMo phones like the HD2, (b) we don’t have a license for the natural feature map tracker to use on any other platform, and (c) we have no funding to do such a port.
BTW, the appeal of the iPhone is the store; porting to any other platforms makes no monetary sense till there’s a proven market. In this case, if some big company wanted to fund a student to do the port to another platform, I could probably find a student to do it.
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Do you think that a GoForce 5500 with a PXA270 would be able to run this game? There is 1 pocket pc, the XDA Flame out there having this video accelerator (and I happen to have one such device).
Loved the video and the idea. We would be interested in posting the video demo under Inventions on our HandBookLive site. Let me know if we can do it. I see that you make your avi file available for download, but we would still need your direct permission to post.
Good luck with this project! Get these kids off the couches
No, such a machine is far too weak to run the game. Sorry.
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