Tabletop Games with AR
Board games can be brought to life with, for example, a dedicated app that could detect moves, player positions, game status, etc. Information, animations, or suggested moves could be displayed right on the board. Another possibility would be a fully AR-based approach, that ‘projects’ the whole game for every player onto the table.
Benefits
AR can make the typical board game become a lot more interesting through ever-changing animations, maybe recorded dialogues, and so on. It can help motivate the whole family to a game night. Especially for children, the integration of digital media can spark excitement.
Apart from that, it can also help bring adult friends together for a game. After all, board games (or tabletop games for that matter) aren’t just for children.
Challenges
People might want to use a family game nights as a way to get away from all the digital media for once. Also, board games have a long tradition and disrupting the market could be challenging.
Take Away
Digital-analogue hybrid board games offer a very high fun-factor, especially for children. And not only that, but they can also be very attractive to adults.
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