Gadgetory

a video of someone playing Super Mario and augmented reality went viral this summer that someone was Abhishek Singh who mapped the entire first level of the original Super Mario Brothers in 3d and put it in microsoft's hololens there's no way to buy or download this but I did play it with Singh in our office ok I see that mushroom coming ok just let it fall on got it we wanted to play it in the park too just like in the video so we did at Madison Square Park here's what happened the lunch crowd is gonna love me yeah look around you should see the bushes maybe actually in the bushes right there oh yeah yeah this is perfect yeah they're kind of like lined up with the real Pia Mario plants and real moments side-by-side oh here it is ok I can see him yeah yep here we go Jenna get him I'm a terrible jumper yeah hunter points what what inspired you to to make this how did you start or where have you come from um well it's actually it wasn't a linear process and how I arrived at Super Mario so when I started playing with the hololens I knew that I immediately saw its potential to be used in outdoor environments and for like large expansive gameplay yeah so I wanted to create some stuff on earth so when I was learning how to develop I basically took this white cube and I was just like moving it around the space and for some reason I placed it a little above my head and I stepped underneath and I jumped and as soon as I jumped like all these memories came flooding back and I was like oh my god this is Super Mario he just made more hair there's the crazy crazy pet here which yeah feels like it's extending down a ghost in the pavement yeah I'm just gonna give a little running jump here and just kind of yeah alright I feel good with my terrible jump there that's much more than you needed to jump what's it like to actually play well it's pretty linear and a lot of things overlap with the real world like a flagpole sprouted from a sedan I couldn't jump on it this Nissan contains the princess's castle exactly yeah it's sprouting right out of there and if you look up it's probably the flag the flag had prior kind of jumps on I look like I'm crazy yeah this is the future where everybody's gonna see extra things floating around exactly yeah now it's not a perfect game but it does show where AR could be headed into games and Singh is going to be looking at Apple's AR kit for the iPhone that could be where people play a lot of AR instead of wearing it on their face I'm actually experimenting with right now is putting an iPhone into something of like a cardboard kind of viewer and seeing whether you can actually have a hands-free experience with AR K but this is definitely a taste of where the future might be heading for mixed reality I'll be shaking thank you for exploring the future a little bit and letting me dive into it