This Giant Augmented Reality Mii Could Destroy Us All
Posted by James Newton
Run for it
The 3DS Augmented Reality (AR) cards are one of the console's coolest features: with just a piece of card and your console you can magic into existence Mario, Samus Aran or a virtual representation of yourself. But cards are small; what happens if you make them bigger?
We're not talking A4 size here: we're talking enormous cards, 672cm x 480cm. How big is the accompanying Mii, though? Big enough to stand toe-to-toe with a giant robot statue. Hopefully the two would end up battling each other: if they joined forces, the world as we know it could be over.
Check out the video below to see the amount of work put into this enormous virtual person.
#1
TeeJay said:
O_O Good Lord. Looks like we have a guiness world record on our hands.
OOH, they should play Nintendogs with it!
#2
Dev said:
That's really cool! They sure used a lot of paper to summon him with. Now all they need to do is summon Giant Mario and Giant Kirby to really make a team! If a giant dragon was made, it would make for one heck of a target game.
#3
Metroid133 said:
#4
Sneaker13 said:
Lol, that's awesome.
#5
TeeJay said:
Next we need one with which people can snap photos of their Miis from passing planes!
#6
JakobG said:
Someone should make a vector recreation of the AR Card, it would allow unlimited scaling.
#7
Yosher said:
XD I so need to try this when I get a 3DS.
#8
Stine said:
So awesome
#9
TheBaconator said:
They should paint a giant AR card on the moon.
#10
Burn said:
Does anyone know what that photoshop edit changed? I can't quite tell in the video.
#11
zeeroid said:
That was too awesome
#12
Stuffgamer1 said:
Wooooow...very interesting, how the 3DS doesn't actually care how big the AR card is. Talk about a game changer!
#13
rjejr said:
That was the best music. 1950's B&W cartoon Christmas music with a dash of the Mighty Mouse theme song.
#14
Nintendophile said:
@Burn: In Photoshop, they were tracing the shapes with the Pen tool, so that they'd be vector shapes. First they enlarged the card to the size they wanted (at 1:03), then they traced the shapes (at 1:07). If they hadn't done that, it would've been a giant, pixelated mess. lol.
#15
neepy said:
THIS IS SUCH A WIN
Giant Pokemon anybody?
#16
realar said:
Wait a minute that was Mighty Mouse? Couldn't be.
Unless in Japan it sounds like that.
Yes JafriYakin ALL of us Pokefans want Pokemon for AR!!
#17
Kriedler said:
Man, a giant, poorly-antialiased version of myself hanging out in urban Japan would be awesome. Might have to do something fun like that here in the great white north
#18
ColorsOfSonic said:
#19
ColorsOfSonic said:
@JafriYakin They could probably make a gigantic Pikmin or a giant Samus
#20
jpfan1989 said:
This! this is WIN!
#21
Peacock said:
Awesome! Though it'd take a lot of room to set that down...
#22
StarDust said:
I'm not afraid of 700ft virtual monsters. They may look intimidating, but it still can't crush you when it has zero mass
#23
Koto said:
Holy crap, that's awesome!
Oh man, they MUST make one with a giant moving Gundam!
#24
GammaGames said:
@2:57 OMG THEY GOT SMASHED!
#25
Glade said:
lol they should do this with yugioh XP
#26
TanookiSteven said:
@9: Mario Goes to the moon!! XD
#27
Zak_Canard said:
@26: Nintendo and Toho should do some 3D short films together to expand on that idea.
#28
Nintendaholic said:
They should put it on the side of a building so whenever you pass it u can use it
#29
pkmnguy said:
Is it possible to make a big AR card and have giant miis in that Mii Viewer AR Game? That would be awesome!!!!
#30
pkmnguy said:
Or wait, was that giant mii made with mii viewer?
#31
danschemen said:
VERY cool
#32
DarkEdi said:
Then that video is telling us we can have our own cards. I hope Nintendo give the images then we print it at any size.
#33
xj0462 said:
@9 how would that work?
#34
simisawesome said:
run away miizilla!!!