Art of Defense: A collaborative Augmented Reality Game (SIGGRAPH 2009)

In this video, we demonstrate Art of Defense (AoD), a cooperative handheld augmented reality (AR) game. This video is an accompaniment to a paper in the SIGGRAPH 2009 Games Track. AoD is an example of what we call an AR Board Game, a class of tabletop games that combine handheld computers (such as camera phones) with physical game pieces to create a merged physical/virtual game on the tabletop. The paper discusses the technical aspects of the game, the design rationale and process we followed, and the resulting player experience. The goal of this research is to explore the affordances and constraints of handheld AR interfaces for collaborative social games, and to create a game that leverages them as fully as possible. The results from the user study show that the game is fun to play, and that by tightly registering the virtual content with the tangible game pieces, tabletop AR games enable a kind of social play experience unlike non-AR computer games. We hope this research will inspire the creation of other handheld augmented reality games in the future, both on and off the tabletop.

http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/lab/research/handheld-ar/artofdefense/

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• augmented reality
• AR
• AR games
• handheld AR
• games
• Georgia Tech
• AEL

[MrBoblebob]

a phone? are u able to download these awesomenes

[MobilersVibrantCoast]

I think you'd enjoy our video about an augmented reality video game app! Check it out on our channel, it's called MODROIDS! If it gets enough views/likes, Samsung Canada might make it happen!!

[CommunistHamster]

Imagine if that was part of the game, though. Imagine if there was some rationale behind making pieces; where the number of lines or the angles between them or something influenced how the game piece looked. Some kind of ruleset that enabled emergent gameplay.

For example, in Fullmetal Alchemist, imagine an AR game based on that, where you have to draw transmutation circles based on some rules. The more accurate you draw them, the more powerful the spell is.

[tukkek]

Love the game concept, and how serious is your approach to it. AR games are probably going to be a huge thing.

[ToastyUploads]

they do, but theyre like a few hundred bucks :/

[kantana1022]

shit if they could make goggles that did what the handheld screens did that'd be awesome

u could do like RL halo or something

[kantana1022]

the best part of this is being able to cheat by making your own pieces lol

[daniel246]

wouldent a head set be better?

[Cryppt]

The amount of discussion just depends on the gameplay. There's a lot more talking going on with my friends in PJM than it looks like there would be in this game just because the gameplay is more polished. Using the camera is pretty sweet though.