ARhrrrr – An augmented reality shooter

Posted on March 21st, 2010 by admin

ARhrrrr is an augmented reality 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 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.

One of the inspirations for this game was the game Joe Warpin, from our Handheld Augmented Reality games class (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cbXp1rO6s ).

http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/lab/research/handheld-ar/arhrrrr/
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/
http://www.scad.edu/atlanta/

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25 Responses

  1. tomfoolery57 Says:

    dude it looks …
    dude it looks freaking awesome! the only thing thats late is your mum on her period. and thats because she is carrying my child!

  2. Principalian Says:

    This would be a …
    This would be a great Sim City style game application.

  3. 6ixtynin9 Says:

    LAME and LATE as …
    LAME and LATE as fuck. There’s already an app like this called “reality arcade” for palm treo’s / palmos devices already (since 2003/2004) and costs under $20.

  4. 6ixtynin9 Says:

    LAME and LATE as …
    LAME and LATE as fuck. There’s already an app like this called “reality arcade” for palm treo’s / palmos devices already (since 03/04).

  5. AELatGT Says:

    It will hardly cost …
    It will hardly cost a couple grand; the dev kit is expensive (the nature of such things), but phones based on Tegra won’t be any more expensive than other high end phones (N900, iPhone 3Gs, Nexus One, etc).

  6. AELatGT Says:

    Actually, the Tegra …
    Actually, the Tegra (1st gen) hardware in this dev kit is in the Zune HD (which, admittedly, is not programable). More interestingly, the Tegra2 is out (and it’s WAY more power) and will be coming out in phones this year, I expect.

  7. Navineous1 Says:

    Yea, the Tegra Dev …
    Yea, the Tegra Dev kit is what they call the device, as I said probally won’t be publicly available to buy until like 2017 >_>

  8. Navineous1 Says:

    This device (The …
    This device (The one with the cameras and NVidia graphics engion). Will cost a couple grand I think so…this will take about another 10 yeras to come out for like 200 dollars. :/

  9. scottoboi Says:

    This has been going …
    This has been going on for a while now. Virtual environment is essentially a pipe dream but augmented reality is the way of the future xD xD

  10. Swordsy005 Says:

    This is awesome, I …
    This is awesome, I can see this possibly growing to become more common in future gaming.

  11. TutorialXGamer Says:

    This is amazing
    This is amazing

  12. DMalenfant1 Says:

    The beginning of …
    The beginning of holo decks from star trek.

  13. pyronathanpyro Says:

    can u get this for …
    can u get this for pc
    i want it on pc so badly im creating my own ar game and i want to test games like this one

  14. AdolphX Says:

    is actually pretty …
    is actually pretty cool, but unless you can put this on video glasses =S i dont think it would be that good, i mean yes is dinamic, but after some hours playing x_X your back will hurt a lot dont you think? its cool tho, im pro AG XD, soo keep up that nice exelent job! =D

  15. sylvur Says:

    It looks fun, but …
    It looks fun, but unless this handheld is cheaper than a PSP or DS which already have a huge collection of games, I doubt I will ever buy this thing.

  16. totoroben Says:

    That game would …
    That game would kill my back. Im a tall dude though.

  17. LanteanKnight Says:

    Lol, this is cool, …
    Lol, this is cool, but it’s too bad this technology hasn’t reached it’s full capacity yet.

  18. redxjak Says:

    i would end up …
    i would end up eating the skittles xD

  19. MRincorperated Says:

    this kind of stuff …
    this kind of stuff is gonna be so badass when it gets perfected

  20. METALIST1989 Says:

    Pretty good but …
    Pretty good but needs more gore

  21. ErichoTTA Says:

    5 stars for the …
    5 stars for the exploding skittles!

  22. tak719 Says:

    @Georgelangham it’s …
    @Georgelangham it’s not a phone but a development kit

  23. iValvePlayer Says:

    Lol, the zombie …
    Lol, the zombie sound is from “The Witch” in L4D XD

  24. selllout101 Says:

    i eated all my …
    i eated all my skittlz :-(

  25. tzk132 Says:

    Fck YOU
    Fck YOU

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