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Super Mario AR the next Pokemon Go? Maybe One Day?
maskedweasel
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New AR Super Mario Brothers puts gamers inside of their favorite 8-bit world
A new version of Super Mario Brothers puts you right inside of an 8-bit world. The level, designed for Microsoft’s HoloLens, allows players to become an animated Italian plumber and experience the NES classic through augmented reality.
“Developer Abhishek Singh recreated a single level of the classic game and played it in New York’s Central Park,” The Next Web writes. “He did it dressed as Mario himself, but I’d assume that part is optional. Over the course of about a month, Singh used Unity — a game engine popular with developers — to integrate each block of 8-bit artwork into a real-world environment.”
Singh said a primary challenge of design was reimagining the game in a real-world 3D setting, and the majority of his time was spent on tweaking the game to work in large outdoor environments.
“It still has a few quirks but is definitely playable. The final level was more than 110m long!” Singh wrote to UploadVR.
