Motion Controlled Android Games Vie to Win Cash and a Meeting with Gaming Legend Trip Hawkins
Herzelia, Israel (PRWEB) May 20, 2014 -- Extreme Reality, the only company to bring full-body motion analysis and control via a standard 2D camera, announced today’s deadline for submissions for the Extreme Motion Android Challenge 2014. Already, more than 100 Android developers have registered their game concepts.
The contest, open to Android game developers, gives participants a chance to win prizes of up to $8,000 and a meeting with gaming pioneer and founder of EA Trip Hawkins, for the most innovative uses of motion control in an existing or new Android game. In addition to the game that wins the grand prize, three games will win honorable prizes of $1,000 each.
Games submitted by today’s deadline will be evaluated by a panel of judges led by: Trip Hawkins, Founder of EA and Digital Chocolate; Roy Geva Glasberg, Europe Programs Lead, Developer Relations for Google; and Robert Zhang, CEO, Xiaocong Network. The judges will review the following six aspects in their scoring: motionization; graphics and audio; gameplay; stickiness; polish; and, usability.
With Extreme Reality integrated into an Android game, all a player needs to do is place their Android device on a table with the device’s camera facing them, take two steps back, and the motion of their body will be captured and analyzed in real-time, enabling their motion to control the game. Similarly, an Android device can be tethered to a larger screen, such as a TV, so a player can enjoy the same level of immersive motion control offered by console systems.
“We’re thrilled with the enthusiasm from the Android developer community in integrating motion control into games on any Android tablet or smartphone and providing players a console-like gaming experience on the mobile devices they already own,” said Asaf Barzilay, VP Products of Extreme Reality. “We look forward to reviewing the innovative game submissions, from adventure to sports to fitness or dance games, and announcing winners on May 30th.”
Details and updates on the Extreme Motion Android Challenge 2014 can be found on ChallengePost at http://extremereality2014.challengepost.com/ and on the Extreme Reality website at http://www.xtr3d.com/android-challenge-2014/.
About Extreme Reality
Extreme Reality enables a future where people interact with computing devices through the motion of their body. It is the only company to provide full-body, software-based, 3D motion analysis and control to any computing device or operating system via a standard camera. Offered as a software development kit (SDK) and with 17 patents granted worldwide, the company’s Extreme Motion product enables developers to create a wide range of experiences (applications, games, security solutions and more) that pioneer Natural User Interfaces (NUI) while breaking the physical barriers of current hardware-based technologies. Extreme Reality was founded in 2005 and is based in Herzelia, Israel.
Osnat Lidor, Extreme Reality Ltd., http://www.xtr3d.com, +1 415-255-6506, [email protected]
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