Your chance to go pro in energy dodgeball has finally arrived.
Like many of you, I too have long dreamt of teaming up with friends to throw glowing balls of plasma at my enemies in a heated match of augmented reality dodgeball. After all, if 90’s movies have taught us anything it’s that the future of sports is basically replacing balls with lasers.
Now it appears that future has finally arrived as the HADO WORLD CUP AR eSports tournament is finally making its way stateside. The AR team sports uses a headset running an iPhone 6s, a motion sensor secured to the wrist, as well as several AR trackers. This lets players run, jump, and weave their way throughout the designated battlefield, generating points by physically tossing “energy balls” at opposing players.
The team that scores the most during the allotted time while simultaneously dodging incoming fire via holographic power shields wins. Users can play by themselves, but the experience truly shines when you team up with 1-2 buddies and duke it out in a PvP team battle. Starting to get some goosebumps now, aren’t you?
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“In a VR world, you basically put on the head-mounted display and you kill zombies,” stated Jasper Tan, founder of HADO Singapore. “But you are restricted by not having the ability to move even three steps away from where your position is, or where your original position is. You can’t move around, you’re probably tied down by cables in that environment or you are seated in a chair, in a roller coaster simulation, or whatsoever.”
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Source: VR Scout