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8-bit style Pikmin AR card by Super Jezmeralda. Doooooon’t you want to download and print your own set of 8-bit 3DS AR cards? I KNOW YOU DO. And you can download the whole set right here! Super Jezmeralda, AR card scientist and proprietor of the excellent Wild AR Cards blog, drew a full set of these blocky cards, and reports that they work!  Oh, is that not fun enough for you? Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more See also: More augmented reality posts

8-bit style Pikmin AR card by Super Jezmeralda. Doooooon’t you want to download and print your own set of 8-bit 3DS AR cards? I KNOW YOU DO. And you can download the whole set right here!

Super Jezmeralda, AR card scientist and proprietor of the excellent Wild AR Cards blog, drew a full set of these blocky cards, and reports that they work! 

Oh, is that not fun enough for you?

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: More augmented reality posts

Experimenting with windowed AR Cards

dfdBlogger Super Jezmeralda, who we recently featured for the hand-drawn temporary AR Card tattoo, has started a blog dedicated to weird AR Card experiments, called Wild AR Cards.

Jezmeralda made some custom cutout AR Cards, including one with the black background cut out, and one with the colored area cut out, and set to seeing what would happen. Above, red and blue spots in a Little Mermaid blanket are interpreted as Mario. Here, a tree triggers a Link appearance.

And here’s a grey brick surface that shows up as Kirby (?):

So that’s how AR Cards work: the system looks at the color within the hexagonal area. 

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: More augmented reality posts

Someone tattooed a damn AR Card on his arm. This is something a person did. Here is his explanation: “Last week I finally snagged a Nintendo 3DS, and after playing the augmented reality games, the first thing I thought was “Oh shit, that AR card would make a killer tattoo.” And so this weekend, I got the 3DS AR tattoo and it’s fucking awesome. … Right now, the tattoo doesn’t always work in really bright light, like sunlight, but it works fine in dim-ish light. I think I need to go back and get an outline around it, because I think the 3DS is looking for the edge of the card and can’t find it in bright light.” This is crazy. You can kind of see the tattoo working with the 3DS’ AR games in this video Cranberryzero posted. Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more See also: More augmented reality posts [Via I Heart Chaos, Kotaku]

Someone tattooed a damn AR Card on his arm. This is something a person did. Here is his explanation:

“Last week I finally snagged a Nintendo 3DS, and after playing the augmented reality games, the first thing I thought was “Oh shit, that AR card would make a killer tattoo.” And so this weekend, I got the 3DS AR tattoo and it’s fucking awesome. …

Right now, the tattoo doesn’t always work in really bright light, like sunlight, but it works fine in dim-ish light. I think I need to go back and get an outline around it, because I think the 3DS is looking for the edge of the card and can’t find it in bright light.”

This is crazy. You can kind of see the tattoo working with the 3DS’ AR games in this video Cranberryzero posted.

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: More augmented reality posts

[Via I Heart Chaos, Kotaku]

Three-story-tall Mii created with a giant AR Card and the Nintendo 3DS’s augmented reality feature.

At the current rate of AR Card size escalation, astronauts will soon be taking photos of Miis jumping from one side of the Pacific ocean to the other in just weeks. And in a couple months, the Zlothorians will clap their tentacles in amusement as they watch their avatars prance around the Orion-Cyngus arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

And then they will crush our pitiful solar system.

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[Via Za23, NicoVideo]

Increase your bust size with the Nintendo 3DS! Just as gamers corrupted the DSi’s advanced jiggle technology for their depraved purposes, this Japanese 3DS owner found a way to turn the system’s augmented reality features into something skeezy, pushing two hills onto a 2D chest.

Presumably, you could accomplish this same effect on any real-life object that you can put an AR card on — your friend’s chest, your dog’s chest, your dad’s butt, your car’s hood, your house, a guitar-playing lizard, etc.

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[Via NicoVideo]

PSP Go grave created with a 3DS and an AR card by NeoGAF’s Donkey Show. System wars hilarity!

We could inundate you with yet another unboxing gallery, yet another augmented reality demonstration video, or yet another post about how the stereoscopic 3D effect can cause nausea/headaches if you’re not careful, but instead we’ll just link you to 8-4 Play’s “Launch Day Special” podcast, which seems a lot more useful than all the superfluous items others seem to be posting.

You won’t hear anything new about the 3DS in the podcast if you’ve followed coverage for the new portable closely, but it offers variety of impressions, ranging from excited to underwhelmed, that I think represent how most people will feel when it comes out in the States.

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[Via Donkey Show]

Don’t get too excited about those AR cards

That full set of AR cards revealed earlier today prompted speculation that the pack-in items would come into play for augmented reality games with Pikmin, Zelda, Mario, Samus, and Kirby on the 3DS. That’s likely not the case!

Game journalist Alex Donaldson spent some time with the different cards and offers these impressions:

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All six Nintendo 3DS augmented reality cards feature Pikmin, Mario, Link, Samus Aran, and Kirby illustrations — presumably, these pack-in cards will be used for augmented reality games featuring those characters. The only AR card Nintendo has shown so far is the one on the top left, which is used for some neat shooting mini-games. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime teased before that the bundled cards might feature an appearance from Mario, but this set implies cameos from a bunch of the company’s major franchises! UK retailer Game, which posted this photo in a Nintendo 3DS unboxing set, unfortunately hasn’t revealed what kind of augmented reality games are used with the cards. Preorder a 3DS with: Our Nintendo 3DS Buyer’s Guide See also: More Nintendo 3DS news and media [Via BowieZ]

All six Nintendo 3DS augmented reality cards feature Pikmin, Mario, Link, Samus Aran, and Kirby illustrations — presumably, these pack-in cards will be used for augmented reality games featuring those characters.

The only AR card Nintendo has shown so far is the one on the top left, which is used for some neat shooting mini-games. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime teased before that the bundled cards might feature an appearance from Mario, but this set implies cameos from a bunch of the company’s major franchises!

UK retailer Game, which posted this photo in a Nintendo 3DS unboxing set, unfortunately hasn’t revealed what kind of augmented reality games are used with the cards.

Preorder a 3DS with: Our Nintendo 3DS Buyer’s Guide

See also: More Nintendo 3DS news and media

[Via BowieZ]

Demonstration of Nintendo 3DS’s built-in “augmented reality” features — possibly the best thing out of last weekend’s Nintendo World 2011? I’m proud to live in a time when  technology has advanced to the point where we can make miniature Miis scoot around on their butts.

If you missed all the Nintendo 3DS videos and news from over the weekend, we have you covered:

Load up all those links, and you’ll be a Nintendo 3DS / Nintendo World 2011 expert, the envy of all your friends!

Buy: Special Edition Red Nintendo DSi XL bundle, DSi XL (Blue, Burgundy, & Bronze), Standard DSi (White, Pink, Black, & Blue), Standard DSi Orange & Green bundles

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Pikachu in 3D from a DS. This isn’t another 3DS mockup, though it might as well be — it’s actually a Pikachu model made in ARToolkit. I’m guessing the DS has the tracking code on its bottom screen to display the 3D model.

But who knows? Maybe pretending to have a jittery Pokemon on your bed facing off with your cat is the future of gaming.

Buy: Nintendo DSi XL (Burgundy and Bronze), Standard Nintendo DSi (White, Pink, Black and Blue)

See also: Nintendo 3DS mock-up/concept collection

[Via Inside-Games]

Trailer for Ghostwire, the augmented reality ghost hunting title from A Different Game. Is this the first DSi game to use both of the system’s cameras simultaneously?

This doesn’t seem as creepy as I thought it’d be, but perhaps it’s because the trailer takes place during daytime. I imagine that it would be difficult to play in the dark, when real ghosts like to come out to play.

Buy: U.S. Matte Black and Blue DSi

Import: Japanese Nintendo DSi (White, Black, Pink, Lime Green, Metallic Blue)

See also: From Nokia to Nintendo: Ghostwire

[Via Kotaku]