Augmented Reality Game

Since there are so many apps out there, from useless to must have of the week, us new comers need to stand out from the competition. We need to have ideas that will STICK right away, and from there, a new idea will sprout.

For example, I just thought of this earlier while i'm looking for some cool games to play on my droid. And I found a game that lets the user use the phone as a racket. The user can hit the ball and just watch it bounce, and hit it again. Well there's nothing exciting about a ball bouncing inside a made up room for the ball to bounce on. Instead I came up with a better more exciting pass time. Since augmented reality is popping up everywhere, and the phone acts like a Wii-mote, why don't we combine those two technologies and make an augmented reality game.

The game will use the phone's camera and scan its surroundings, not only that, but also the depth and the user's distance from objects surrounding him or her and the distance of the objects from each other and the walls. It will take in the information it scans and outputs on the screen a duplicate of the user's surroundings, but is still happening in real time. The ball will remain inside the screen, but the effects are there, so now if you want to bounce a ball, you won't be afraid to break something because it'll break inside your phone. If you point your phone to your 60" plasma tv, and bounce the ball there, your dad won't yell at you.

Although these kind of games are still stuck in the screen, the screen plays an important role between the players' reality and the interactive environment inside that screen, it becomes the window, we are able to peek out, we can't step out yet, we're going to crash and fall, we need a ladder to finally bridge the gap between our world and the cyberworld.