New Sony PSP Augmented Reality Game INVIZIMALS

Novarama has demonstrated a new Augmented Reality creature capture/combat game for the Sony PSP using the Videocamera attachment.

Randall Hand 15 years ago 1 1.9 K

Barcelona game studio Novarama has jumped on the Augmented Reality craze with a new Sony PSP game that uses the PSP camera to create a creature hunt/capture game called “Invizimals”. It seems it uses pairs of PSP for a multiplayer setup (although presumably a singleplayer mode is available for us lonely folks), and the player first locates & captures a card through covering the marker at the correct time (to “Grab” it). Then the captured creature can be fought Pokemon style against other monsters.

Looks pretty impressive, using basic pattern cards for Augmented Reality tracking, but the camera attachment (Released in Japan in 2006) has yet to reach the US.

See a video of the game after the break.

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Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.