DIGITAL PICTURES AUGMENTING YOUR REALITY WITH PAPERVISION

Oh! What a time to have a busted web cam and a printer packed firmly away: while we wait patiently to see just how lovable Sony’s curiously Monchichi-esque EyePet will be, Digital Pictures Interactive have released the first stirrings of their own bespoke version which you can interact with now by printing a reference spot and training your webcam to your desk.

The studio is the same one behind their earlier Save Your Sensible campaign that also uses Papervision3D tech to do realtime 3D animation in Flash, utilizing, they say, “a file format originally created for first person shooter video games from 10 years ago (id Software’s Quake 2).”

The games potential for this type of augmented reality is obviously quite high, and while Sony is one of the few big players currently dabbling in it (also with their card RPG Eye of Judgment), we also have big hopes for Nintendo to do the same with the now camera-enabled DSi.

Let us know how you get on with your creature via the comments.

Papervision – Augmented Reality [Digital Pictures Interactive]