Be Excellent To Each Other

Before the Mafia con job exploded the Gizmodo was quite exciting because it proposed the first commercial Augmented Reality Game that looked like this (it was a portable console with a camera for those who can't remember):



Which whilst looking a bit pants as a game, is such an interesting idea that you can't help but like it.

Taking that exact same sentance into the fall of 2009 is this from Sony:



Finicky beyond reason to get all set up? Check.
Bullshot video with them all looking at the creature not the tv screen? Check.
Ridiculous distant release date to be announcing it? Check.

So it's 100% sony, but still.

Goddammit I don't want to own all three consoles.

Ooh, augmented reality games, eh?



http://julianoliver.com/levelhead

Ah yes, I tried googling for that but I couldn't find it.

It's another game that looks awful as a game. But the tech is amazing enough that I want it.

That pet-o-thing is disturbing

When I worked in Gamestation, we had a Gizmondo rep that came in a few times touting the machine. He was a lovely bloke and I remember feeling really sorry for the guy, knowing that it was only a matter of time before he lost his job.

I saw a writeup a while back, which I cannot currently locate, of a tech demo that is probably based off the same code. It sounds amazing. The journalist drew a tank on a piece of paper and thirty seconds later was driving it around a 3d world, with animated tracks and turrent. Looks like everything is coming up Sony!

And you people mocked me when I said I'd rather keep the PS3 than the 360.

Unless you know the developers then I'll mock you if you kept your PS3 on the hope that something like this would be released.

I have a PSP, DS, Wii, funsquare, and PS3. Gotta catch 'em all.

that was on kotaku im sure.

You doubt my super-awesome psychic powers of prescience?

*wonders if he should've posted this in the super-powers thread*

Back when I worked for t'almighty shapes, I saw that trailer (or a different (longer?) trailer for the same thing) months and months ago.

Kids looking at the thing's real-life position rather than the reflection on the screen... wouldn't you end up putting your hand right through it? Wouldn't that be ICKY? Not to mention PAINFUL for the critter?