Amazing Experience with Augmented Reality Games

Augmented Reality (AR) enables gamers to experience digital game play in a real world environment.In Augmented Reality Gaming, a gamer cannot tell any difference between the real world and the virtual, and simply enjoys a great fun.Augmented reality gaming fulfills the wishes of gamers who wanted to have their favorite video games come to life in 3D space rather than just being contained by a Monitor or Television.Video game development companies all over the world have started incorporating AR technologies into their games. Augmented reality gaming enables players with a unique view, groundbreaking gameplay options and the capability to interact with games directly instead of a controller or a keyboard.Augmented reality gaming drives the gamers’ into reality by combining storytelling, and imagery effects.

Besides Augmented Reality, there is another technology called Virtual Reality, in which a gamer will wear special gloves, earphones, and goggles to feel real environment and play the game.  Let's take an example game called Temple Run, which is an edge-of the seat exciting game of running away from dangerous creatures while ducking to obstacles and collecting collectables. Till now, this game is played on a small window of mobile phones, but no longer. Temple Run VR (Virtual Reality) of the infinite runner from Imangi Studios is now available on the Samsung Galaxy Gear VR.

Niantic Inc. is now coming with an augmented reality game called Pokémon Go. The game will be available for the gamers later in 2016. It will be available for both iOS and Android devices. In this game, players can leverage information about location and can combat, catch and trade with other players. The augmented reality gaming’s goal is to immerse the gamers by enabling them to continue to be in touch with the real world while interacting with virtual objects around them. AR games will not intimidate gamers and are accessible to gamers of all levels. 

Game geeks can jump in and start trying them out. Playing AR games is one of the better way to gain knowledge of the potential creative applications of Augmented Reality across many disciplines.A survey suggests that there is a huge demand from the gamers who want to be able to view and experience things that can’t be physically present and at the same time game development companies want to project layers of virtual data onto real world environments, creating meaningful and outstanding experiences. AR and VR technologies have the ability to help solve these problems.

The big companies across the world pouring billions of dollars into virtual reality and augmented reality, thus suggests there is no doubt that the technology is here to stay. A survey conducted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers via an interactive timeline on Facebook says that 51% of respondents, globally, believe that AR/VR is the future of gaming. It also suggests that gamers are always looking for new things, whether it is the new version of the game in a franchise or the next hardware platform/capability. It suggest AR/VR will be the most crucial innovation of the next gaming generation, and gaming industry will figure out how the technology is viable.