Space Invaders: World Defense Uses AR to Bring Digital Battles Into the Real World

Europeans can scan billboards to join the fight

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The original Space Invaders arcade game celebrates its 45th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion video game company Taito partnered with Google and production company Unit9 to create a new version of the classic game powered by augmented reality.

Space Invaders: World Defense challenges players to defend the real world from digital invaders. The game uses Google’s ARCore Geospatial API to anchor digital content into the physical world around the player based on their location.

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