Nintendo

Windowed AR Cards Reveal 3DS’ Secret

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.


April 8, 2011
Nintendo

Watch The Dragon Pop Out Of Someone’s Chest With 3DS AR Shirt

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.


April 1, 2011
Nintendo

Playing 3DS Augmented-Reality Games With A Whiteboard

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.


March 17, 2011
Nintendo

Magic Cards Are ‘Holy Shit’ Moment Of Nintendo’s New Toy

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.


March 14, 2011
Nintendo

Bigger Boobs With The Nintendo 3DS

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.


March 11, 2011
Nintendo

There Are Huge 3DS AR Cards. They Make Life-Sized Miis.

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.


December 29, 2010
Mobile

You Can Play And Watch These Nintendo 3DS Games Next Month

That is, if you live in Japan. Nintendo is rolling out its Nintendo World 2011 next year in Chiba, Japan. The Kyoto-based company has a list of titles that will be playable for those over six. You’re over six, right?