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Alex Stone
Alex Stone

Reputation: 47354

iPhone4, iOS5 Networked, multiplayer Augmented reality (AR/VR) game. Where to start?

I'm working on a pretty complicated app right now, but I just got a really good, niche market idea for an AR game for iPhone. I would love to get some preliminary research done on whether or not it is worth the effort. I got a few (about 4 days) in which to code this. Is this a realistic timeline for what I'm trying to accomplish?

While I'm pretty familiar with the CMDeviceMotion, and can get location updates from GPS, there are 4 features that I think may take a colossal amount of work:

1) Working with camera in real time to draw augmented reality controls. Are there any good tutorials on how to overlay a view on top of a live camera feed?

2)Making the app work when GPS reception is spotty. It seems that some apps know how to keep updating the location based on accelerometer/gyroscope from the last known location. Where would I start on this front?

3)The networking component. I'm very new to multiplayer games. I got a website that can run PHP. Should I abandon my networking idea until I get a web server? Or is there some way I can run this in P2P over 3G without a base station?

4)Google maps integration for fast updates. Does this take a lot of effort?

I'm sorry if any of these questions are too broad and vague. I'm very excited about this idea, but would like to know what I'm dealing with before spending time on the app and realizing that I'm dealing with a monumental task!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 314

Answers (1)

Daniele
Daniele

Reputation: 1005

I think you are dealing with a monumental task (especially the multiplayer part, where you'll encounter issues like lag/timing).

For the augmented reality part of your project, you can take a look at mixare augmented reality engine. It's free and open source software and the code is available on github: https://github.com/mixare/ Be aware that if you base your code upon mixare, you'll have to release your app under the same GPLv3 license as mixare.

Good luck for your project!

HTH, Daniele

Upvotes: 1

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