The World of AR Games: A Developer's Perspective

As I sit down to write this article, I'm surrounded by the latest and greatest in augmented reality (AR) gaming technology. The devices on my desk are like mini-computers, capable of projecting holographic images into our real world. It's a fascinating space, one that's rapidly evolving with each new release.

I start by playing around with the AR basketball game, which I'll refer to as "Basketball AR." This is actually an older game that was recently updated with some new features. The gameplay is simple: tap on the screen to move your avatar around, and shoot hoops to score points. What's impressive is how well the game is optimized for AR, with accurate timing and realistic physics. I find myself getting caught up in the excitement of competing against others online.

Next, I try out "Battle Bears Zombies," another popular AR game that's recently been updated with a new campaign mode and AR feature. This one's more action-packed, with hordes of undead bears and zombies to fend off. The gameplay is fast-paced and intense, requiring quick reflexes and strategic thinking. I'm impressed by the attention to detail in the level design, which adds to the overall sense of immersion.

Moving on, I explore "Paper Bin AR," a game that's similar to Basketball AR but with some key differences. One notable feature is the presence of leaderboards right on the screen, adding an element of competition to the gameplay. The paper bin itself is also surprisingly detailed, with rolling and falling physics that add to the overall sense of realism.

Finally, I take a look at "CSR Racing," a popular mobile racing game that's recently been updated with an AR feature. This allows players to place their favorite cars in the real world, complete with accurate interior designs and exterior models. It's a fun feature that adds a new layer of depth to the gameplay, and I enjoy exploring my own virtual garage.

Throughout these games, I'm struck by the creativity and innovation on display. AR gaming is still a relatively new space, but it's clear that developers are pushing the boundaries of what's possible. From simple yet addictive gameplay to more complex simulations like Battle Bears Zombies, there's something for everyone in this rapidly evolving field.

As I continue to explore these games, I'm reminded of just how far we've come in terms of AR technology. Gone are the days of clunky, low-resolution VR headsets; today, we have sleek, compact devices that can project stunning holographic images into our real world. It's an exciting time for gaming and entertainment, and I'm eager to see what the future holds.

The Potential of AR Gaming

As I reflect on my experience with these games, I'm struck by the potential of AR gaming as a whole. With so many apps and ideas already in development, it's clear that this space is ripe for innovation and creativity. From simple games like Basketball AR to more complex simulations like Battle Bears Zombies, there's something for everyone.

One of the most impressive things about AR gaming is its ability to blur the lines between reality and fantasy. With devices capable of projecting stunning holographic images into our real world, it's easy to get lost in a virtual environment. But at the same time, these games often incorporate elements of the physical world, creating a sense of immersion that's hard to replicate with traditional gaming.

As I move forward, I'm excited to see where this technology takes us. Will we see more complex simulations like Battle Bears Zombies? Will we develop new types of AR games that push the boundaries of what's possible? Only time will tell, but one thing is certain: the future of AR gaming looks bright.

Conclusion

As I conclude my exploration of these AR games, I'm left with a sense of awe and wonder. The technology on display is truly remarkable, and it's clear that developers are pushing the boundaries of what's possible. From simple yet addictive gameplay to more complex simulations like Battle Bears Zombies, there's something for everyone in this rapidly evolving field.

Whether you're a seasoned gamer or just starting out, I highly recommend checking out these AR games for yourself. They offer a unique and immersive experience that's unlike anything else available today. And as we move forward into the future of AR gaming, I have no doubt that we'll see even more innovative and creative applications of this technology.

So what do you think? Are you excited about the potential of AR gaming? Let me know in the comments below!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys it's medine with Apple Insider so it's been a couple months since iOS 11 came out and introduced a arkyd with all those AR games that came out we actually made a video on that you guys can check out if you click the card above but today we're gonna look at some new games that have been developed over the last couple of months and see if there's any progress or anything cool with that so let's jump right in so the first game we're gonna try out is ghosts and guns a are free on the App Store this one's pretty cool let's go ahead and turn this on first of all can start first you scan the floor get a good little location let's put our portal right here now it can stand so you pretty much you have unlimited ammo trying to kill these little ghosts and some of them turn into angry ghosts or whatever so I just keep tapping there we go now we got a portal boss it's kind of cool how you can just use your whole surroundings that ban was easy let's move back to our move back to our portal now I've only gotten to level 3 because this is a pretty hard game a lot of people in the reviews were complaining about it but anyways this just for fun just to see what ARS capable of you know you wouldn't actually play this game like seriously or anything next we're gonna play squishy hoops it's similar to flappy bird but it's honestly a little bit harder and it's an AR well you have to swipe the floor here so yeah there we go got it it's just this hoops put it right over here next door said look at that beautiful suggest it like that place and now you just have so this is kind of like flappy bird but it got like this fat bird you're playing with hoops okay nope yep try that again I did pretty well last time I've got the star yep oh just keep tapping now this is a pretty tough game it's gonna be really annoying and just make sure not to throw your iPhones in or your seven or whatever has a are a kid well this is getting hard I'm actually surviving here okay let's get through here look at that bog oh come on give me a high score no next we're gonna try the free game a our dragon come on place it let's place him right here on the set then we got a cool little dragon here kind of go around them get our reward yeah no don't want that cool looking looking dragon guess we gotta feed this dude give him a doughnut Apple and we can actually play with them check this out that's pretty cool she'd actually toss a ball with your dragon I mean I can see how this can be pretty cool this being really cool for your kids now we can train oh cool you can kind of like that's pretty cool like that shoot targets guys like are set up that old Mac right there old iMac okay man I suck just like that what's that bow we're here Oh now the next one's rainbrow it actually uses the true depth camera system to sense your facial expressions so you play by raising your eyebrows and by frowning and yeah it's pretty tough let's go ahead and start trying to play this all right up down down if you can manage to keep a straight face you can keep it still probably look like a fool playing this somewhere that's cool okay stay look at new high score yeah I don't know how much fun ah okay stand still ah moving on to the next one hey our basketball get a little closer like that I'm not a good basketball player let me tell you that that's pretty cool so imagine a real life-sized one maybe I'll try that out outside when I go out there real life-sized scanner floor here okay okay let's place it like that start is this cool let's actually take a look around it look at that that is really interesting see how far I can go back how far will it let me go back not too far it kind of changes here get those three-pointers now here's a paid game called battle bears zombies a lot of people love this game and it comes with a campaign mode but it just came out with an AR mode so let's try it out so you pretty much have the regular campaign mode or they have the new AR feature that they just came out with recently like a month or two ago let's find our surface let's put it right there see yep there he goes let's just go like this put it out there perfect just a little hologram bear guy in here see your zombies coming out well bear zombies you just tap on them I don't know how much ammo there is now let's let one of these guys to be close I want to see what it looks like look how big they are wool yep see how their level for sure oh I guess fast oh you ugly oh man I got unicorns that blow up that is weird what was this oh look at that got a trap huh now here's one that should be a lot of fun for the kids Lego a our studio back there you go you can tap right there and let's place whatever this is a little dragon cool we do it in anything with this guy oh yeah we can apparently we can fly with him look at that I think it'd be really cool for kids you know what is here little Lego man over here that's cool yes do it anyways boom got a ship and this guy could do the same thing swimming around now let's move on to paper bin AR which is similar to the basketball AR game alright so plain paper bin AR is kind of like the AR basketball game except here there's actually leaderboards right on the screen and it seems like a lot of people play this cuz look at this guy he's got first rank with 432 that's insane anyway so let's see let's put it out medium distance just like that and I started trying to play with my thumb and it's so much harder so I'm just using my index finger and to be honest I'm not very good at this I played it for like a couple minutes but it's pretty cool and the bin actually fills up with paper and you have to empty it out just interesting and I think it could actually roll or fall out of the bin if it's pretty full it's really cool that they could put those physics in this game yeah it's a pretty fun game especially for little kids now finally we have CSR racing too now this game has been out for quite some time but they just added a new AR feature where you could put any car in your garage into the real world let's go ahead as you can see there's a new AR button right there snap that I want to place your car in says real world yes let's place our car right over here as you can see here's my car GTI it's the factory one I actually owned one of these so I know what it looks like pretty sweet the cool thing is that you can actually go inside and you can check out the interior and it's remarkably accurate to what the real interior looks like all right now let's rescan this floor I'm gonna do a real-life model right here and I kind of want to rotate this guy let's place them right here boom let's close this first surprisingly it's actually a really good sized model here like this is actually what it would be like in real life not even kidding like I remember how big this car was this is pretty awesome to be honest maybe that's whatever let's open this up everything here is like exactly how it is in real life they did such a good such a good job with this it can actually step inside of it I've got the media center right here the instrument cluster steering wheel all these controls are exactly the same there's even this little GTI logo right there you can actually change the lighting what would you look at that so there you go guys those were the latest AR games since the last time we made the video some of them are pretty cool some of them aren't but it's really cool to see how far a R has gone in just a couple of months and there's so much more room for potential in the AR space not even games but so many apps you can create so many ideas out there so try those out for yourself tell me how you liked it leave a comment below and we'll see you in the next video if you enjoy this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next videohey guys it's medine with Apple Insider so it's been a couple months since iOS 11 came out and introduced a arkyd with all those AR games that came out we actually made a video on that you guys can check out if you click the card above but today we're gonna look at some new games that have been developed over the last couple of months and see if there's any progress or anything cool with that so let's jump right in so the first game we're gonna try out is ghosts and guns a are free on the App Store this one's pretty cool let's go ahead and turn this on first of all can start first you scan the floor get a good little location let's put our portal right here now it can stand so you pretty much you have unlimited ammo trying to kill these little ghosts and some of them turn into angry ghosts or whatever so I just keep tapping there we go now we got a portal boss it's kind of cool how you can just use your whole surroundings that ban was easy let's move back to our move back to our portal now I've only gotten to level 3 because this is a pretty hard game a lot of people in the reviews were complaining about it but anyways this just for fun just to see what ARS capable of you know you wouldn't actually play this game like seriously or anything next we're gonna play squishy hoops it's similar to flappy bird but it's honestly a little bit harder and it's an AR well you have to swipe the floor here so yeah there we go got it it's just this hoops put it right over here next door said look at that beautiful suggest it like that place and now you just have so this is kind of like flappy bird but it got like this fat bird you're playing with hoops okay nope yep try that again I did pretty well last time I've got the star yep oh just keep tapping now this is a pretty tough game it's gonna be really annoying and just make sure not to throw your iPhones in or your seven or whatever has a are a kid well this is getting hard I'm actually surviving here okay let's get through here look at that bog oh come on give me a high score no next we're gonna try the free game a our dragon come on place it let's place him right here on the set then we got a cool little dragon here kind of go around them get our reward yeah no don't want that cool looking looking dragon guess we gotta feed this dude give him a doughnut Apple and we can actually play with them check this out that's pretty cool she'd actually toss a ball with your dragon I mean I can see how this can be pretty cool this being really cool for your kids now we can train oh cool you can kind of like that's pretty cool like that shoot targets guys like are set up that old Mac right there old iMac okay man I suck just like that what's that bow we're here Oh now the next one's rainbrow it actually uses the true depth camera system to sense your facial expressions so you play by raising your eyebrows and by frowning and yeah it's pretty tough let's go ahead and start trying to play this all right up down down if you can manage to keep a straight face you can keep it still probably look like a fool playing this somewhere that's cool okay stay look at new high score yeah I don't know how much fun ah okay stand still ah moving on to the next one hey our basketball get a little closer like that I'm not a good basketball player let me tell you that that's pretty cool so imagine a real life-sized one maybe I'll try that out outside when I go out there real life-sized scanner floor here okay okay let's place it like that start is this cool let's actually take a look around it look at that that is really interesting see how far I can go back how far will it let me go back not too far it kind of changes here get those three-pointers now here's a paid game called battle bears zombies a lot of people love this game and it comes with a campaign mode but it just came out with an AR mode so let's try it out so you pretty much have the regular campaign mode or they have the new AR feature that they just came out with recently like a month or two ago let's find our surface let's put it right there see yep there he goes let's just go like this put it out there perfect just a little hologram bear guy in here see your zombies coming out well bear zombies you just tap on them I don't know how much ammo there is now let's let one of these guys to be close I want to see what it looks like look how big they are wool yep see how their level for sure oh I guess fast oh you ugly oh man I got unicorns that blow up that is weird what was this oh look at that got a trap huh now here's one that should be a lot of fun for the kids Lego a our studio back there you go you can tap right there and let's place whatever this is a little dragon cool we do it in anything with this guy oh yeah we can apparently we can fly with him look at that I think it'd be really cool for kids you know what is here little Lego man over here that's cool yes do it anyways boom got a ship and this guy could do the same thing swimming around now let's move on to paper bin AR which is similar to the basketball AR game alright so plain paper bin AR is kind of like the AR basketball game except here there's actually leaderboards right on the screen and it seems like a lot of people play this cuz look at this guy he's got first rank with 432 that's insane anyway so let's see let's put it out medium distance just like that and I started trying to play with my thumb and it's so much harder so I'm just using my index finger and to be honest I'm not very good at this I played it for like a couple minutes but it's pretty cool and the bin actually fills up with paper and you have to empty it out just interesting and I think it could actually roll or fall out of the bin if it's pretty full it's really cool that they could put those physics in this game yeah it's a pretty fun game especially for little kids now finally we have CSR racing too now this game has been out for quite some time but they just added a new AR feature where you could put any car in your garage into the real world let's go ahead as you can see there's a new AR button right there snap that I want to place your car in says real world yes let's place our car right over here as you can see here's my car GTI it's the factory one I actually owned one of these so I know what it looks like pretty sweet the cool thing is that you can actually go inside and you can check out the interior and it's remarkably accurate to what the real interior looks like all right now let's rescan this floor I'm gonna do a real-life model right here and I kind of want to rotate this guy let's place them right here boom let's close this first surprisingly it's actually a really good sized model here like this is actually what it would be like in real life not even kidding like I remember how big this car was this is pretty awesome to be honest maybe that's whatever let's open this up everything here is like exactly how it is in real life they did such a good such a good job with this it can actually step inside of it I've got the media center right here the instrument cluster steering wheel all these controls are exactly the same there's even this little GTI logo right there you can actually change the lighting what would you look at that so there you go guys those were the latest AR games since the last time we made the video some of them are pretty cool some of them aren't but it's really cool to see how far a R has gone in just a couple of months and there's so much more room for potential in the AR space not even games but so many apps you can create so many ideas out there so try those out for yourself tell me how you liked it leave a comment below and we'll see you in the next video if you enjoy this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll 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