Kotaku
Sure, you're thinking, "I already play Augmented Reality. It's called relating to the people I work with on a daily basis". Well, supposedly this is way more fun than that. Augmented Reality, or AR, is what some people are calling the games that mix in the virtual world with physical reality. One of examples that MSNBC give is the real-world version of Quake that researchers at the University of South Australia created where users wore a visor and backpack while walking around in public, fighting super-imposed computer objects only they could see. It's like a mix of theatre and gaming. According to games analyst, Bll Pidgeon:
I don't know if it's a sustainable industry, but there's definitely money in it. There's many ways you can link gaming and interactive entertainment outside because portable devices are getting pretty powerful and so is the network. I can see it growing."
Like I don't already have a hard enough time not hitting geocachers who have wandered out into the middle of the street with my car. My insurance is going to go way up.
