Ok, so nothing official. But honestly I think it would be a total blast.

I can't wait for the g'glass to be availlable in retail, so that such game become real. Am I trully the only one who can immagine random pokebattle in the street between perfectly normal adult, random Encounter in park and on the road between city. Zubat galore in subway station.

It would be totally awesome way for kids to get outside and get sun and exercise while allowing them to play videogame.


Do you guys and gal, have any other idea of game that would be awesome in a virtual immersion game?

 

Doom.



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FTFY

And an Xmen/Cyclops style battle might work with laser eyes. Perhaps a bit of burning scenery and torn up roads saved on a coordinating server.

 

In completely unrelated news, the number of people wearing Google Glass in public and cackling wildly as they look around has risen sharply.

 

I've tried GGs before (someone on my floor in college got a pair cause his Dad is an exec at a big ratings firm) and they aren't that great :/

Great concept, but it just feels weird, probably has to do with the fact that I wear glasses haha.

But i am still waiting for VRMMORPG's ala SAO

 

If you want anything resembling Immersion, you'll need an Occulus Rift imo.

Glass is little more than the most primitive version of a HUD you see in Video Games. Give it a couple of years and it might do something interesting, but not in the near future.

 

After a few years the app market will have been overloaded with duck hunt games.

 

You're right that you won't be getting "immersion" from Glass, but fun can still be had. It is a HUD that sits over the top of reality and you wear it every day. An Occulus Rift can't do that. I don't think that the two devices should be compared at all; they're very different.

 

One is Altered Reality, the other is Total Visual Immersion. They're two completely different things.

 

Yeah, I was just responding to the "Virtual Immersion" in the title. I don't really think you can call Google Glass an 'immersive' device.

 

This isn't quite correct. Google glass is a HUD, but doesn't actually have any true AR elements. AR implies that the device is superposing virtual elements onto the real world, so for example a you could create a virtual tree and you would see it in the same place relative to the real world regardless of how you move. This is actually much, much harder to do right than VR, and considering we are still working on VR, AR is a long ways away.

 

Actually, that's exactly what's happening.

This is AR one year ago: World´s First Augmented Reality App for Google Glass
And this is six months ago: Race Yourself - Virtual Reality Fitness Motivation

These Google Glass apps are looking pretty damn slick. I'm guessing the AR elements are being triggered by a mixture of visual pattern recognition [eg. QR codes, unique graphics] and GPS.

 

Wait, how the hell are they doing AR in glass... I thought glass had a screen only on one eye. Guess I am behind the times.

 

The last part of Tech we're missing when it comes to VR is sensory-immersion tech. Which is unfortunate I think, because touch, taste, and smell are all way behind sight and hearing. Which are only just barely into the realms of what I'd call acceptable as 'VR'.

 

Unfortunately, the only viable way I can think of that being accomplished is to directly interface with the brain. And that's still quite a ways off I believe.

 

These two are really cool!

Augmented reality doesn't need two eyes.

Google Glass does have a camera built in, so you just need software that can process that data, link it to something meaningful and then display something meaningful on the HUD. That's the real challenge.

Apps are becoming available on phones that can do this too - overlay useful information from a camera feed using image recognition.

Here's a pretty cool TED talk showing off some AR stuff.

 

Check out Kor-fx. It adds a semblance of touch to VR.