Do you think Augmented Reality is far away? Ubisoft is already working on video games to take advantage of it

When we talk about consoles, whatever the platform, companies always give maximum importance to numbers in terms of power. A truth that it is, but only relative, because the strength of a console platform lies above all in terms of the catalog of applications and games it has

Y this is a maxim that can be extended to mobile phones (a system will be more or less successful depending on the applications with which it count in their respective store), to the PC format or even in the next great battlefield of developers: Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality

An area in which Redmond has been working for some time and there the project that under the name Windows Mixed Reality already offers data on new devices (in the case of brands such as Lenovo or Acer) based on the use of this technology. HP's will have to wait.

But no matter how interesting they may seem, the success of these proposals will depend on the part that can be made of them on a day-to-day basisYes, it is true that they hide great potential, but this depends above all on finding applications that allow the user to take advantage of it. And in this…. Leisure, with video games, seems to be a fundamental link.

That is why eyes turn to check what is the position of video game developers towards this type of product And there are companies that They have not been slow to announce that they are already working on titles that seek to take advantage of the functions offered by this ecosystem of products.

A new gold mine for the industry?

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This is the case of Ubisoft, a company whose managers have announced that they are already working on prototypes to be used in HoloLens and other compatible products. This is the case of Toy Soldiers, a strategy game similar to the board games we used not so long ago and that will allow the use of a surface as a battlefield to defeat the enemy."

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A title that was not alone, as it was accompanied by Rabbids Rocket, an installment of the saga in which the protagonists used all the room in which we are to move freely waiting to be captured."

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For now they are titles in very green phases of their development. Simple videogames, perhaps of a casual nature suitable for the majority of users that are only a preview of what can come when the development of _software_ and _hardware_ run parallel and thus a higher performance can be obtained."

Via | VRFocus In Xataka Windows | Mixed Reality will be commonplace in our lives, but according to Phil Spencer it will still take time to arrive