American played in Super Mario in Augmented Reality

We all remember the console game Super Mario Bros. Jump on bad mushrooms and turtles, collect good mushrooms, walk on water pipes and fight dragons. But what if a computer game became a reality? The American programmer was able to do this: he turned Super Mario into an augmented, but still a reality - and played it in Central Park in New York.

Smart uphill will not go

Abhishek Singh, like many modern young scientists, is a fan of eight-bit games. Therefore, he chose Super Mario Bros as a testing ground for his augmented reality developments.

Using the Unity game engine, which allows you to create objects in the virtual world, Abhishek built the entire first level of the cult game. And then he recorded the passage of this level in Central Park in New York through Hololens glasses and from the side - as if he himself was a character in the game on the console and it was controlled by someone else.

Mario in the game is very jumpy. Singh cannot boast of the same, therefore, in a real virtual world, he preferred to simply avoid obstacles that a fun plumber could easily jump over. This is the main advantage of 3D over 2D! And the player in this case "will not put the kinescope."

This is not a toy for you

Of course, augmented reality is used not only for entertainment (although virtual games may well become engines of progress in this area, as was the case with computers). In general, the ability to display virtual objects in real-world space will come in handy in a wide variety of areas of human life: from choosing furniture and training doctors to complex technical work in space.