This type of games is suitable both for one or several players. Your table or floor is the battlefield, and your smartphone is the actual game. Short augmented reality games for Android and iOS allow to enjoy every free minute. Beer Pong AR. Well, now even an all-time classic of beer pong is in AR.
A mobile-augmented reality game created by Google for Android devices, is set to launch on iOS devices next year, reports. Plans for the iOS version of the game were confirmed by Ingress product manager Brandon Badger, with the Android version experiencing over ten thousand active players a month and one million activations total since Google launched a closed beta for the title last November. As described in the, the multiplayer gameplay of Ingress centers around two sides, The Enlightened and The Resistance, who compete against each other for clues about a mysterious new technology. The story is set in real-time with Google delivering new clues every week, with players claiming local landmarks around them in the real-world, which earns them points for their respective team in-game.
Ingress transforms the real world into the landscape for a global game of mystery, intrigue, and competition. Our future is at stake. And you must choose a side.
A mysterious energy has been unearthed by a team of scientists in Europe. The origin and purpose of this force is unknown, but some researchers believe it is influencing the way we think.
We must control it or it will control us. Move through the real world using your Android device and the Ingress app to discover and tap sources of this mysterious energy.
Acquire objects to aid in your quest, deploy tech to capture territory, and ally with other players to advance the cause of the Enlightened or the Resistance.An of Ingress was released for iOS earlier this year for both jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices, however the port's creators warn that players may be banned for using an unofficial app. A new Ingress story titled '13Magnus' began today with live events planned for 38 cities, concluding in San Francisco on December 14th. Ingress is set to launch for iOS in 2014, but Google has not specified when. I've been playing Ingress for a couple months and enjoy it. I suspect many people on this forum would take swipes at the game since it is Android-only at this point.
I acquired an Android device purely to play the game and use my iPhone as a hotspot to bridge the data service to the device. One of the major goals of the development staff was to get people 'off the couch' and out into the outdoors. That's the huge plus of the gameplay. Anyone that plays Ingress will do a lot of walking. You will see other parts of your city you have missed if you travel out to see other portals. And if you only stay in areas where you are familiar you will gain an appreciation of public art and other landmarks people typically submit as portals.
It is much like an MMORPG except instead of moving your avatar in a virtual world, you actually drive, bike, and walk to locations in the real world. Instead of chatting with your teammates over voice-chat, you will be able to meet up with people in your area face-to-face. The gameplay itself is very simple at this point. There's really only two aspects of the game: acquiring resources and using the resources to take over territory from the other side.
There are some subtleties of the game you will have to learn, but once you learn them you can reach max level in as little as a month if you play a lot. It took me two months. Two months of a lot more exercise than I was getting in the past. The developers have put this whole story together for the players. If you're into that type of fantasy, awesome.
I personally don't pay a whole lot of attention to it and rely on other players to let me know how the gameplay changes over time. The developers have listened to the players and improved the game. They also occasionally tweak the game parameters to try and influence player behavior. Probably as experimentation. I don't play nearly as much anymore. But every once in a while I'll get out, do some more walking, and take back a few more portals. In the process of playing the game I've seen more parts of my community and met lots of people on both sides.
I've been very happy with the experience. Having played it, it is a pretty fun game, I really like the 'real world' aspect of it, it adds a nice dimension when you go out for a walk or go visit a new place, I don't play it obsessively but it's quite nice to play casually, I think there could be room for more augmented 'reality' based games like this. But (stating the obvious) all games can't appeal to everyone, if you are a type of person who requires instant gratification, to beat a game in a few hours or have no intention of leaving the house then it's obviously not for you. Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like it's going to be one of the weirdest marketing ideas? The game will end with Google revealing that they've made family unit nuclear reactors or something so you can take your family off the power grid? IDK, I can't see Google being into nuclear power.
And I can't think of anything else from that plot description that would make sense to describe as a 'new energy source'. The point is, it's not a game. I don't know what Google is 'really' doing, but people should see the blatant irony of the premise and rules, of being lead and manipulated, all in the name of freedom and better worlds. I've been playing Ingress for a couple months and enjoy it. I suspect many people on this forum would take swipes at the game since it is Android-only at this point. I acquired an Android device purely to play the game and use my iPhone as a hotspot to bridge the data service to the device. One of the major goals of the development staff was to get people 'off the couch' and out into the outdoors.
That's the huge plus of the gameplay. Anyone that plays Ingress will do a lot of walking. You will see other parts of your city you have missed if you travel out to see other portals. And if you only stay in areas where you are familiar you will gain an appreciation of public art and other landmarks people typically submit as portals. It is much like an MMORPG except instead of moving your avatar in a virtual world, you actually drive, bike, and walk to locations in the real world. Instead of chatting with your teammates over voice-chat, you will be able to meet up with people in your area face-to-face.
The gameplay itself is very simple at this point. There's really only two aspects of the game: acquiring resources and using the resources to take over territory from the other side. There are some subtleties of the game you will have to learn, but once you learn them you can reach max level in as little as a month if you play a lot. It took me two months. Two months of a lot more exercise than I was getting in the past. The developers have put this whole story together for the players.
If you're into that type of fantasy, awesome. I personally don't pay a whole lot of attention to it and rely on other players to let me know how the gameplay changes over time. The developers have listened to the players and improved the game.
They also occasionally tweak the game parameters to try and influence player behavior. Probably as experimentation. I don't play nearly as much anymore. But every once in a while I'll get out, do some more walking, and take back a few more portals. In the process of playing the game I've seen more parts of my community and met lots of people on both sides. I've been very happy with the experience. Very well explained.
I've also been playing on and off since last winter and while the gameplay itself isn't complex, it's a refreshing change from typical gaming in that, you actually have to get your a$$ of the couch to play. God forbid anyone actually get a bit of exercise, or maybe socialize face to face with someone.;) I've made some new friends, both teammates and opposing players, and seen parts of my city that I probably wouldn't have been to otherwise. Google have some ulterior motive? Possibly, don't really care, enjoyed playing it regardless. You think all the big video game houses are making games for everyone to play out of the kindness of their own heart? There doing the same thing any corporation is doing, trying to make money.
And you could be certain that all the Google bashers in here would be praising it to high heaven if Apple had created it.:rolleyes.
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Augmented reality superimposed images on the real world. It’s different from virtual reality, which replaced the real world with a simulation. AR goes beyond, and has the potential to, shopping, and much more. Wamsi Mohan from Bank of America Merrill Lynch predicts Apple could make an additional $1 billion before 2020 from sales of AR software. In addition, he expects Apple to include dedicated 3D sensors to the back of the 2019 iPhone (there are already such sensors in the front).
This would bring increased device sales to people who want AR apps, netting Apple an additional $6B to $8B before 2020. What about an Apple AR headset? Rumors have pointed to. If that happens, Mohan says Apple’s increased revenue could jump quite a bit. “If Apple were to introduce AR specific eyewear (not currently factored into our model) we conservatively size the cumulative revenue upside from such device sales at approximately $11 billion by fiscal year 2020,” the analyst predicted. Apple AR a top priority “I view AR as profound.
Not today, not the app you’ll see on the App Store today, but what it will be, what it can be, I think it’s profound. And I think Apple is in a really unique position to lead in this area,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said last fall. The company introduced the first version of ARKit in 2017. This is set of tools enabling developers to create augmented reality applications for iPhone and iPad. The second generation.
Among other improvements, ARKit 2.0 offers more realistic rendering, 3D object detection, and shared experiences. That last feature means the AR games can finally involve up to four people competing together.
This new version will become widely available with the.