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xBlocks MR Video Game

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photo by Tristam Sparks

You probably saw this already on Regine's WMMNA site (if not you should have) but worth repeating here: a Mixed Reality Game from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Milan:

"xBlocks is a convergence between video games & sculpture — liberating play from the screen. It is a mixed reality installation inspired by traditional platform games of the late 1980s such as Super Mario Brothers or Pitfall. Using standard game controllers, two opposing players must help their characters navigate in and around a three dimensional maze. The real challenge comes, not from traditional game mechanics but rather from moving with your character as he sprints around corners and jumps between the installation’s two play surfaces."

and video here.

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