If you aren’t familiar with EyePet, it’s basically all the fun of owning a pet without the mess! Featuring next generation augmented reality, EyePet delivers an interactive lifelike, virtual pet right into your own living room using the PS Eye. He will respond and relate to movements in your own world. Pet him, and he will purr. Tickle him and he will laugh. Roll a ball to him and he will chase it. You get the point. (via Playstation Blog)
In association with digital marketing agency Initiative and creative agency David & Goliath, Total Immersion has unveiled the new D’Fusion@Home Facebook augmented reality application, called “Go Hamster Go!” The game marks the first use of augmented reality in a Kia application for a social media environment — and adds to the cool factor with “game changing” face tracking.(via AugmentedRealityBlog)
The application is available now on the social networking site (www.facebook.com/kiasoul) under the Go Hamster Go! tab.
Demo video of new conceptual game 'levelHead' by Julian Oliver.
Using tilt motions, the player moves a character through rooms that appear inside one of several cubes on a table. Each room is logically connected by a series of doors, though some doors lead nowhere (they are traps).
The player has 2 minutes to find the exit of each cube, leading the character into the entrance of the next..
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. (via Augmented Environments Lab)
“Cannonballz” is the first casual game built using Augmented Reality and Motion Capture User Interface Engine. ZugMo Technology enables anyone with a webcam (and a Flash plug-in) to physically engage with various elements that are integrated within their video stream. No mouse and no keyboard. (via weareorganizedchaos)