RPGs, VTTS and now AR VTT RPGs, as we have Mirrorscape and its Augmented Reality virtual tabletop roleplaying game app. Mirrorscape provides the AR tech, the virtual tabletop for the AR tech, and partners and players provide the RPG.
As of this week, you can get the free iOS app and Google Play version too. Both allow in-app purchases.
Mirrorscape says it is a first-of-its-kind tabletop gaming platform that supports open play of popular games like Dungeons & Dragons, Starfinder, and Pathfinder. Users build and interact with game pieces, terrain, and other players in a virtual setting that is just as immersive as a physical one. Mirrorscape is also modular to different rulesets and game systems, making it a platform for developing user-generated homebrew campaigns.
Mirrorscape Co-Founder and CEO Grant Anderson told the press;
Mirrorscape is a platform built by and for TTRPG players, and we are ecstatic to show our community what we’ve been working to develop. The support Mirrorscape has received in building our platform has been thrilling to see, and we thank every one of our users, backers, developers and partners for their contributions to the future of tabletop gaming.
Adoption is usually the challenge in new RPG tech in that people won’t or don’t need to use it until other people they want to game with do, so onboarding new gamers becomes a chicken-and-egg challenge.
Mirrorscape has been developed over four years and had more than 4,000 users in the beta test. Three thousand seven hundred backers brought the Kickstarter funding campaign to life, suggesting that most stuck with the platform while new people came to it.
Mirrorscape is developing its platform to be compatible with a wide range of AR glasses and headsets, including Apple’s new Vision Pro, devices on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces platform, and others expected to be released in 2023. This will enable users to experience heightened immersion and advanced hand tracking and gesture technology when using Mirrorscape on these devices. The glasses and headset functionality is scheduled to launch later this year.
However, the launch is very much on roleplaying games, and Co-Founder and COO Donald Bland said;
Tabletop gaming is in the midst of a renaissance, with interest in games like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder at a high point in public engagement. We’re offering the first open, immersive platform for players of all experience levels, and this technology can revolutionize how longtime players engage with their favorite games while ushering in a new generation of young players.”
Quick Links
- Mirrorscape: iOS app | Google Play
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