I’m just home from the VS Games 2010 conference which took place in Braga, Portugal. I presented our paper from the University of Ulster entitled “Augmented Reality Games for Upper-Limb Stroke Rehabilitation”. We’re really pleased to have won best short paper at the conference (we won best paper at the conference last year – on a roll baby…).

I have uploaded a new presentation to my SlideShare which is a merge of the VS Games presentation and a recent one hour seminar I gave at the university. It includes videos of the games I’ve been working on, including some early prototypes of augmented reality games (note: these are in their VERY early stages – still glitchy and need developed much further). You can find the presentation below.

We went to see Alice in Wonderland (in 3D) at the cinema last night. Although not an amazing film by any means, it was still thoroughly enjoyable (as with most, if not all, of Tim Burton’s films). Wonderland looks rather nice in 3D, though nothing compared to the world of Pandora (Avatar). As with Avatar and other 3D cinema I’ve experienced (e.g. old 3D Imax shows), watching the film just excited the hell out of me for when I can play games in 3D. In particular, I can’t wait to play a 3D Elder Scrolls game. I just keep imagining that moment when you walk out of the sewers in Oblivion (The Elder Scrolls IV) and the glory of seeing Cyrodiil and The Imperial City in the distance in 3D.

Bring it on! Eurogamer recently published this interesting feature on the current state of 3D TV’s and 3D games.