The Pokémon franchise is no stranger to augmented reality – Pokémon GO uses the tech to put hundreds of monsters in your living room, and even the 3DS had Pokémon Dream Radar, another game that had you capturing Pokémon in a real-life setting – but one fan has put their own spin on the formula.
YouTuber user Fyone has created a concept for an augmented reality take on the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Using the Unity 3D game engine with AR software development kit, Vuforia, Fyone has managed to create a 'game' which reads real-life Pokémon cards, creates fully-animated models of the selected Pokémon, and even plays out battles as you select your commands.
Only Pikachu and Machamp have been given the AR treatment – naturally, this kind of work takes a lot of time – but it's pretty impressive nonetheless and actually makes use of Pokémon Sword and Shield's UI styling to finish the look. You can see how it all came together in the video below (the finished product can be seen in action from the 7:29 mark):
Pretty neat, huh?
Do you think there's any potential in new AR experiences for the Pokémon series? Would you play a version of the Trading Card Game that works like this fan-made project? Let us know in the comments.
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Omg i need this. It's so cool
He’s already sued by Nintendo?
Pokémon Company: Oh cool, more takedowns and money making. (With a hint of stealing ideas)
TBH I think Nintendo is one of the very few companies that could hypothetically make a augmented reality gaming system, and have it be widly successful.
Game Freak could then do something similar to what this Pokemon fan did.
@Natsura they tried a little bit with the 3DS, didn't they? But they never really did much with it.
That's beyond amazing. Surely doable by a big company like Nintendo...
...but at times I feel they would just C&D and let the idea die
@KateGray they did, but I think if they went further with it then they would have been able to do great things with it.
Like normal, talented people are doing what Nintendon't
Eye of Judgement is the only AR game that I have not laughed off in the past 10 years.
The main issue is AR doesn't add much more than a simple gimmick and then the games that do make use of it never get developped further (mostly because AR doesnt cast as wide a net in terms of audience)
There are good ideas out there for AR, but often VR does it a step better.
That being said a multiplayer puzzle game or an RTS would be an incredible AR game, but it's never going to happen.
Seto kaiba would be proud
This is absolutely gobsmacking!
Maybe in AR I could actually get back into the Pokemon TCG...
@birrafondaio sued?
Would actually probably collect again if they implemented this with all Pokemon and I could find people to battle with.
@KateGray MarioKart Tour is a good example.
@Christofu lol, yes
“Technology is incredible!”
If the Pokemon Trading Card game was this good in 1998 then I would buy this day one but this is 2021 so anything that should be impress was done already.
While I'm not big on AR (looks cool but serves little practical purpose) I think a TCG in a VR setting would actually work better, and maybe even a VR version of a "Virtual Tabletop" would be excellent!
Now that VR gaming close to the anime Pokemon games. This will drive the prices of cards....
This is how I want the TCG video game be like. Place a card, a Pokémon appears. Trainer cards play different animations according to their art and effect.
Like the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, manga, and 3D games, but with Pokémon.
We've been waiting for 3000 years for such game. Pokémon Snap fans just had to wait for 84.
How Pokemon TCG should've been.
Knowing Gamefreak, they're too lazy to implement something this cool in their cards, so let's hope this video gains enough interest to motivate them otherwise.
This is why the Switch needs a camera for AR! But why do that when they instead will just make a mobile game.
This is the kind of stuff that TPC should be doing instead of Pokemon Unite.
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