DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats above your controller

Re:DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats ab... by apetresc on Thursday July 13, 2023 @08:37AM (#36708215)

It's pretty clear from the title; it's an AR app that projects an emulator over top of your controller.

Sounds pointless if you're using a phone as your window into AR, but if you were to imagine this on a headset like a Quest or Vision Pro, it would basically "turn" any controller into a handheld retro console.

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Re:DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats ab... by ImHereToVote on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:32AM (#36708854)

Then why isn't it running on Android? That would instantly work on the Quest. Why would someone voluntarily subject themselves to xcode? People need to treat themselves better.

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Re:DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats ab... by KeplerBoy on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:56AM (#36709220)

ARkit presumably. Android just doesn't have an AR ecosystem that's as mature.

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Re:DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats ab... by jwells89 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @10:14AM (#36709481)

Which is interesting, because the release of ARKit doesn’t even pre-date that of Android’s ARCore by even a whole year, and as I recall Google was dabbling in AR before Apple was. The difference is that ARKit has received consistent attention and iteration.

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Re:DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats ab... by sshff on Thursday July 13, 2023 @11:43AM (#36711058)

Well, there was a clear and specific product driving it in the Apple camp. Not just to get it ready for the dev kit for VisionOS devices but to get their dev teams a constant flow of useful data from any AR apps created in ARKit along the way that have likely fed into the design decisions and roadmap of the entire project.

I’m pretty sure ARKit has been 99.99% in existence as a way of getting as much real world data as possible for the headset design and ‘spacial computing platform’ project.

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Re:DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats ab... by bee_rider on Thursday July 13, 2023 @01:58PM (#36713409)

This sort of stuff also just seems to be way more in Apple’s wheelhouse. Apple is a device company, providing these kinds of developer libraries is, like, table stakes. For Google, supporting hardware isn’t in their DNA, right?

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Re:DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats ab... by nomel on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:57PM (#36715873)

> this on a headset like a Quest

None of the Quest give camera access to the apps, and there's currently no AR target support through the cameras. :(

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Re:DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats ab... by post-it on Thursday July 13, 2023 @10:07PM (#36718602)

The camera is only used to track the controller, the actual 3D data is pulled from the game files. The Quest API does let you layer elements onto the passthrough view[0], so it could work, the game would just hover in front of you instead of tracking the controller.

[0] https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/unity/unity-passt...

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Re:DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats ab... by jldugger on Thursday July 13, 2023 @08:37PM (#36718004)

> It's pretty clear from the title; it's an AR app that projects an emulator over top of your controller.

It's not that clear at all if this is your take away -- its not just projecting a 2d surface emulators normally generate, but is instead taking that 3d data from the emulator and projecting _that_ into space. If you move the controller

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