Augmented Reality Zombies on the Tegra

Here's a quick peek of a game under development at the GVU Center's Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech, in collaboration with SCAD-Atlanta.

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Gaming

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• tegra
• ar
• augmented
• reality
• zombies
• georgia
• tech
• gvu
• center
• ael
• games

[pogodrummer]

excuse me sry 4 the noobness but can i buy that umpc-tablet phone somewhere?

[AELatGT]

Nope. It's a dev kit for the new NVidia mobile chipset. Will probably be in mobile devices of various sorts (including phones) this year.

[ROSENKRIEGER360]

Okay call me a bit lazy but I just don't get it.

I mean I see how it is being used and it does look interesting, but WHY would I would to point a device at something on my table to then see stuff happening on the device?!?

Why not play the game inside the device 100% ?! What is the use of playboard on the table and the combination of both?!

[AELatGT]

While it's not completely obvious from the video, one of the key points of handheld AR is the direct control you have of the camera. Since you can move it around "naturally", you get then focus your mental and physical effort on control other aspects of the game.

Only part of what you see is "virtual" -- you are still seeing the physical gameboard, which gives you a kind of "grounding" in the world that makes it easy to think and play in the larger world (not just on the small screen).

[DualRevolver]

good job, but dosn't the tegra have higher capabilities?

[AELatGT]

Higher capabilities? How so? What are you thinking about?

It's CPU is good, but still only an ARM. In this demo, each of the Zombies and People are fully animated models with hundreds of polygons, with GPU-based skinning, etc.

Keep in mind that we're just doing simple, straight OpenGL, with not a ton of optimizations, and it's running at higher frame rates. Also, this is a tech demo, on a pre-release, so things like the Camera drivers are likely not optimized, etc.

[Saroku12]

In the future it may be possible to use ordinary things like a chocolate bar or a pencil to create a house :D

[bloodyvid]

wow technology is somethign aint it?

[jay33011211]

you should have a nuclear bomb level that area it would look crazy.

[endlsswing]

i'm guessing there are certain requirements for the physical gameboard. with that said, would i be able to draw and print out a map and play on it? also, if i stuck my hand in to poke a zombie, would the system be able to recognize my hand 'attacking' the zombie?

[ROSENKRIEGER360]

Now that actually sounds really cool :-) But I'd prefer it for the XBOX 360 ;-)

[ROSENKRIEGER360]

Oh okay, now I understand. Thank you! I get it now.

[ROSENKRIEGER360]

Gee Dumbfuck. Thanks for explaining it so well...

[DualRevolver]

i got the reply and now that i read it... i don't quite know what i was thinking.