Thursday, May 31, 2012

Top AR Games on the Market

By Antonio Margheriti


There are at present a number of AR gaming applications available, although as the concept still is in its beginnings regarding smart phones only some of these kinds of games tend to be especially smooth running or seamless in regards to interfacing the real world with the digital. However here are a few of the best available currently.

As stated by their website Parallel Kingdom is "a mobile location based massively multiplayer game that uses your GPS location to place you in a virtual world on top of the real world." There are a heap of massively multiplayer online role playing game's (MMORPG) all over the net in recent times although this is certainly one of the very first augmented reality releases. Although the concept has a whole lot of possibility this particular gaming still is rather primitive but nonetheless is creating some waves and consequently at least one of the large pros is that it is cross-platform, which means the iphone players may play against/with android customers and so forth .. In addition, it contains a excellent social feature, there are a selection of numerous methods to communicate with many other users. Together with an over-all rating of 4.1/5 on the android market (13,000+ ratings) it most definitely has a huge fan base that is certainly continually increasing.

Sky Siege 3D is actually an augmented reality first person shooter, where you shoot down enemy fighter jets, choppers in addition to blimps no matter where you may be at the moment. This type of immersive 3d adventure simply can't be experienced sitting down since you are bombarded coming from three hundred and sixty degrees and have to always be continually moving around to fight and kill ones opponents. This is a bona fide AR video gaming experience integrating your current surroundings live via an compelling shooter. Making use of your smartphones compass and extending your equipment towards the limit it might be slightly sluggish on equipment containing restricted processing power. In conclusion Sky Siege is where its at when it comes to first person shooter AR cellular game playing currently.

SpecTrek happens to be an AR ghost hunting video game, where you need to find ghosts and ghouls using a map of your respective actual position, hunt these folks down and catch all of them. Employing your handsets Gps unit you need to physically move through your location to trap these ghouls, which is certainly a lot more involved than many AR game titles currently available nevertheless it is truly a heck of a lot of a good time.

The top scored AR game for both the android in addition to itunes markets, its AR integration is definitely seamless and completely simple to use. Although the geographical structure of the gameplay may result in a certain amount of logistical concerns in a developed setting, therefore it is best played in an oped space or park. Over-all SpecTrek is considered the benchmark with regard to AR online gaming, receiving second prize for the Android Developer Challenge II lifestyle category.




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