Tag: Augmented Reality
News Don't Worry, Sony Still Has a Curious Fondness for Rubber Ducks
And polygonal dinosaurs
Employees may come and go, but it seems that there’s one constant at Sony Computer Entertainment: the entire firm’s still utterly obsessed with rubber ducks. While there was a disappointing dearth of the bright yellow toys during the platform holder’s PlayStation 4 unveiling over a year ago, the firm has reaffirmed its...
News There's Only One Way You're Going to Get Hatsune Miku in Your Bedroom
Little deviants
There’s no need for the X-Factor in Japan, as the region is so technologically advanced that it’s able to manufacture its chart toppers using computers. As such, you have little to no chance of bumping into Hatsune Miku at a swanky awards ceremony – but through the power of the PlayStation Vita, you will have others...
News Sony Opens Zany Augmented Reality Game on PlayStation Vita
Don't be square
Open Me, Sony’s wacky augmented reality co-operative puzzle game, is set to think outside of the box on the PlayStation Vita this week. Just like Fruit Ninja, the title was listed as part of the PlayStation Blog’s weekly release schedule, confirming a North American launch. There’s no word on a European date just yet, but we...
News PS4's Ace Augmented Reality Demo May Grow Before Launch
You're probably going to want a PlayStation Eye
Sony didn’t intend to release The Playroom. The absolutely incredible augmented reality showcase – which we recently got to check out firsthand – was designed as a collaborative effort between the platform holder’s hardware and software teams in order to better understand the new control...
News You'll Totally Get a Free Game Pre-Installed on Your PS4
Power of play
There may be a wealth of free-to-play content already in the pipeline for the PlayStation 4, but there’s one game that Sony wants you to sample out of the box. The Playroom, the platform holder’s augmented reality technology demo, will come pre-loaded with every machine, allowing you to experience virtual pong in your living room...
News Box! Open Me Fuses Co-Op Gameplay with AR Technology
Curiosity
Box! Open Me is an intriguing PlayStation Vita augmented reality game that tasks players to work together in order to unlock a series of increasingly complex boxes. This hands-on video shot by Joystiq at the Tokyo Game Show demonstrates the simple title in action, as two players work together to grapple with clasps, relay input codes and...
News Sony's LiveAction AR Will Blow Your Mind
The future
Sony’s been meddling with augmented reality for years, and this brand new LiveAction AR trailer shows just how far the company's come. The footage shows a poster being scanned with a smartphone, only for a lady inexplicably dressed as a schoolgirl to climb out of the display and pose for a photograph. It’s really creepy, but the...
News PulzAR Takes Off on Vita Next Month
T-minus ten...
Sony’s been experimenting with augmented reality for years, and the sum of its investigations are really starting to show on PlayStation Vita. While competing platforms play catch-up, Sony's releasing some really impressive stuff on its new handheld – and that's set to be expanded next month with the release of PulzAR. Terrible...
News AR Hockey Shows Off Vita's Markerless Technology
Pong
Sony’s not forgotten about PlayStation Vita’s augmented reality features. At last week’s GDC it showed off a brand new tech demo called AR Hockey. Unlike previous augmented reality titles on Vita, AR Hockey works without a marker card using Sony’s new Smart AR technology. Players must stand around a rectangle surface and physically move...
News CES 2012: Sony Shows Off Table Football On PlayStation Vita
One area Sony's always excelled at is augmented reality
The platform holder has been experimenting with the technology for years — way back with the EyeToy on PlayStation 2, and more recently with the PlayStation Move on PlayStation 3. Naturally, the PS Vita extends on all of the tips and tricks Sony's researched over the years — with the...
News CES 2012: Sony Shows Off Table Football On PlayStation Vita
One area Sony's always excelled at is augmented reality
The platform holder has been experimenting with the technology for years — way back with the EyeToy on PlayStation 2, and more recently with the PlayStation Move on PlayStation 3. Naturally, the PS Vita extends on all of the tips and tricks Sony's researched over the years — with the...
News Get Inside Vita's Augmented Reality Features with New Video
Keep learning
Feeling your brain start to explode with PlayStation Vita news and information ahead of its Japanese launch this weekend? This video might just tip you over the edge. Sony's just released a new video explaining the system's powerful augmented reality functions, with talking heads from development studios telling you just why this...
News PS Vita Takes Augmented Reality to New Dimensions
Exploring new depths
Sony has been keen on bringing augmented reality games to their portable system since the 2009 PSP release of Invizimals, which offered a Pokémon type of gameplay where you capture and raise creatures to battle them. Unlike Pokémon though, real world surrounds had to be explored to find these creatures, which is only possible...
News Sony Reveals Augmented Reality Marker Cards And Games For PlayStation Vita
Sony's proven over the years that it is at the forefront of augmented reality gaming
Just recently we wrapped up reviews for both EyePet Adventures and Invizimals: The Lost Tribes — two PlayStation Portable titles that put augmented reality at the heart of their respective experiences. So it's no surprise to see Sony lift the lid on a slew of new...
News TGS 11: Wide Area Augmented Reality On PlayStation Vita Looks Nuts
During this week's Tokyo Game Show, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida held a keynote to demonstrate some of the PlayStation Vita's features
One of those features was augmented reality. Vita will provide augmented reality in three different ways: without a marker, with a marker and with multiple markers. It's the latter of these...
News TGS 11: Sony Promises To Revolutionise Augmented Reality With PlayStation Vita
No Nintendo fans, augmented reality is not a new concept invented by your favourite company
Sony has been experimenting with augmented reality in games for years — so it's really no surprise to see Sony double down on the technology for PlayStation Vita. During its Tokyo Game Show keynote, Sony confirmed that PlayStation Vita will not need a...
News Sony Demonstrates PlayStation Vita's 'Face Control' Technology
PlayStation Vita's 'Face Control' technology was demonstrated in Tokyo this week
It uses the Vita's front-facing cameras to super-impose animated character model overlays on top of the users. The technology is reasonably impressive, apart from when it's trying to detect blinking. That ends up looking a bit scary.
News Watch the PSVita Do Face Recognition and Giant Dinosaurs
Quite the capable camera
One of the PSVita's most alluring new features is it dual cameras, capable of creating some pretty impressive augmented reality. We've already seen how games like Reality Fighters can project street brawls into backyards, tabletops and looming cityscapes, and a video posted by Sony a while back gave us a brief glimpse of an...
News Reality Fighters Lets You Punch Your Own Face
And a friend's
Sure, the cameras powering the PS Vita offer all new ways to play with augmented reality, but did you know they also make it easier for you to punch your friends on the face? Reality Fighters, an AR fighting game that lets you pit brawlers against each other in real-life environments, also features the ability to snap photos of you...
News Crash Into This New WipEout 2048 Trailer
Near functionality and augmented reality
The WipEout series has gone portable before, with the WipEout Pure and WipEout Pulse making a home on Sony's last handehled the PSP. The games made great use of the hardware, and where stellar examples of how to translate the fast-paced world of WipEout to a smaller screen. WipEout 2048 on PS Vita takes that...
News NGP Camera Utilised in Resistance and Uncharted
What will you see?
The NGP will feature two cameras, one front-facing and one in the back, and it appears that the Uncharted and Resistance titles coming to the NGP will make use of at least one of the system’s cameras in one way or another. According to sources “close to Sony”, Resistance NGP will allow players to use the camera to pick up...
News New Video of NGP’s Augmented Reality Emerges
Believe your eyes
The PlayStation Blog has posted a retrospective video chronicling the company’s continued efforts to tap into the world of Augmented Reality. Starting off with the PlayStation Eye on the PS2, the video first describes the humble beginings of the feature, which then required you to sit stationary in front of the TV. With the PSP...
News Only PlayStation Move Does Augmented Reality Justice, says Dev
Kinect delay ruins experience
PlayStation arguably brought augmented reality into the home, with the PS2's EyeToy games getting further refined into EyePet: Move Edition, Start the Party! and more on PlayStation Move. Now Dana Jan, director at PlayStation masters Ready at Dawn, has spoken out about how Move has the edge in augmented reality gaming...
