When the Nintendo 3DS is looking for an AR Card to start a game, it isn’t searching for or recognising its specific image-it’s recognising a colour, and then spawning whatever comes next off of that. To prove this, AR enthusiast Super Jezmerelda created cards with the question-box design cut out, then framed certain colours within that window.
So, we’ve seen the 3DS’s augmented reality games played on an iPhone, on an Android phone and on a white board. We’ve seen giant cards spawn giant Miis and Marios. Now, thanks to this t-shirt, you may see the AR dragon pop out of someone’s chest.
Everyone’s testing the limits of the Nintendo 3DS augmented reality games, but it does seem that if you can replicate one of the cards it uses – preferably the question-mark box – you can start the game from anywhere, whether it’s on the screen of an iPhone or, now, a white board.
There will be 16 games available on the Nintendo 3DS when it goes on sale on March 27, but its best games may be the ones built right into the machine. And video doesn’t show the half of it.
Want bigger boobs? Bigger virtual boobs? The 3DS augmented reality cards are being used to make mountains out of molehills, as evident in his video. This trick isn’t limited to the 3DS only – any AR camera set-up could conceivably make this happen.
The 3DS uses small credit-card sized augmented reality (AR) cards for the title AR Games, but Nintendo is currently developing AR cards that are able to reproduce life-sized characters.