Star Wars holographic chess creator working on a card game using augmented reality

The famous cinema visual effects specialist, Phil Tippet, founder of Tippet Studio , is working with HappyGiant on HoloGrid: Monster Battle . This is not quite an ordinary game will be a hybrid of desktop card games and computer games with augmented (and virtual) reality.

While the technical details about the game are not yet completely clear. It is known that the battle will unfold on the table with the help of playing cards - while the device used by the player to create augmented reality will recognize the folded cards and show the monsters in the field.


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Phil Tippet participated in the creation of monsters for a variety of movie hits - films about Indiana Jones, Howard Duck, Golden Child, Robocop, Star Troops and the Twilight saga. One of his most memorable creations is holographic chess in the 4th Star Wars episode, which was remembered again in the newest at the moment, the 7th episode.



And although modern technologies do not allow us to play such holographic chess, the use of mobile devices or augmented (and virtual) reality glasses may well help us in this. It is expected that the virtual monsters emerging from the cards will be quite active - they will move and fight with each other, diluting the unhurried flow of the card game.

What specific platforms the game will support is not yet known. Mike Levine [Mike Levine], president of the development of the company HappyGiant said that they are very interested in new platforms, such as Magic Leap , HoloLens , CastAR , Meta, and augmented reality mobile technologies like Vuforia . In addition, there will be a version of the game, adapted for conventional mobile devices and PC.



In addition to stunning work on monsters and other visual effects, Phil Tippet is known to Internet users as a dinosaur meme object from the Jurassic Park - in this film he was mentioned as a joke in the credits as a dinosaur superintendent. As a result of the fact that the plot of the dinosaurs got out of control of the park workers, a meme was born about a not very conscientious caretaker who did not cope with the only task entrusted to him.