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We didn't get the opportunity to check out the PlayStation Vita's built-in augmented reality games when we received our Japanese unit -- because the Japanese unit doesn't come with this stuff. But you can see the "Table Football"/"Table Soccer" game being prepared for the Western launches in this video from the US PlayStation Blog.

Table Soccer (we're American) allows you to turn the surface of your choice into a playfield by laying out AR cards. You can adjust the size of the area by spreading the cards out, placing the bleachers and scoreboard with specific cards. Then you play soccer by flicking the ball with your finger. It's like all those table games you played in elementary school, except way more expensive and futuristic, basically.

This is one of three AR games built in; the other two are Cliff Diving and Fireworks.

JoystiqVita's Table Soccer AR game laid out on video originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>ar-cardaugmented-realityplaystationplaystation-vitatable-footballtable-soccervitaThu, 12 Jan 2012 16:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Trade your Club Nintendo coins for a big 3DS AR card]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/25/trade-your-club-nintendo-coins-for-a-big-3ds-ar-card/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/25/trade-your-club-nintendo-coins-for-a-big-3ds-ar-card/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/25/trade-your-club-nintendo-coins-for-a-big-3ds-ar-card/#comments Your 3DS Mii is pathetically teensy now, suitable for posing next to hamsters and soda cans. But you could make your virtual self much more (virtually) substantial with the giant AR Card, available now from North America's Club Nintendo for 200 Coins. The 28.5" tall card has the question-mark block on one side, and Mario on the other, allowing it to be used for AR Mario images as well.

Two other prizes were added to the lineup today: for ten coins, you can get a Metroid: Other M screensaver -- released almost a year after the game ... or for 400 Coins, there's a set of three Donkey Kong posters, in the same style as previous Mario and Zelda posters.

[Thanks, Zonic505!]

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3DSar-cardclub-nintendodonkey-kongdsmetroid-other-mnintendoposterwiiMon, 25 Jul 2011 20:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Arttoo: 3DS fan gets AR card tattoo]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/03/arttoo-3ds-fan-gets-ar-card-tattoo/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/03/arttoo-3ds-fan-gets-ar-card-tattoo/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/03/arttoo-3ds-fan-gets-ar-card-tattoo/#comments Most people who don't happen to have their Nintendo 3DS AR cards handy just, you know, load them up on a smartphone. But a fellow who goes by the handle Cranberryzero decided to go for a more permanent solution -- he got a tattoo of the Mii AR card on his arm.

As you can see above and after the break, the tattoo actually works. Whenever the 3DS camera is looking at his arm, the Mii of his choosing appears to be standing just below his wrist. Cranberryzero says the tattoo works best in dim light; in bright light, the device seems to have trouble sussing out the card's border from his skin color.

It's pretty cool -- and clever -- but he'd better start preparing an explanation to give his future grandkids now.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dsarar-cardaugmented-realitydsmiinintendotattooTue, 03 May 2011 01:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Birth a dragon from your chest with this 3DS AR card t-shirt]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/09/birth-a-dragon-from-your-chest-with-this-3ds-ar-card-t-shirt/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/09/birth-a-dragon-from-your-chest-with-this-3ds-ar-card-t-shirt/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/09/birth-a-dragon-from-your-chest-with-this-3ds-ar-card-t-shirt/#commentsSure, the augmented reality cards included with the 3DS are super neat, but how about making a giant one and posing it next to an oversize Tetsujin 28-go statue? Ohhh ... right. Or maybe drawing one on a whiteboard? But you've already done that too? Okay, okay, we've got it -- you could wear one like a shirt! Wait, what?! Dammit!

Well, anyway, assuming you weren't one of the first 3,000 European 3DS registrants to receive Nintendo's bonus AR t-shirt, Level Up Studios has you covered! The company's $18 black t-shirt comes adorned with the same question mark block seen on the official Nintendo equivalent, only a bit larger (and nicer looking, we'd say).

Head past the break for a video of the shirt in terrifying live action.

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JoystiqBirth a dragon from your chest with this 3DS AR card t-shirt originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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