Facade AR was a curious experiment from 2005-2007 into creating a live drama experienced through a head mounted display. You walk into an apartment and into the relationship breakdown of two characters who are graphically superimposed on the physical space. Players could verbally communicate with the characters who were controlled live by an operator.
The video shows the hilariously ramshackle kit employed by the research team at Georgia Institute of Technology. Check out the laptop backpack. Quaint as this video seems just five years on for it's low-fi, low-res approach, AR is now much more widely available. In April 2010 Layar was claiming 1.5 million downloads to iPhone and Android phones of it's AR software. It seems eminently suitable as a game or drama platform.
A more recent video from Georgia Tech is the impressive "Second Life Avatar Enters the World" merging Second Life functionality with AR.
Gigaputt for the iPhone, a game of golf that takes you round the city, made by Gigantic Mechanic was featured at the New York Come Out and Play festival 2010.
A game of altogether more scale is this from Audience Entertainment
More subtle, ambient games by the same company are demo'd here:
More and better examples soon I hope. Get out there and make some AR drama please.
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