Rock climbing meets Augmented Reality (AR): A new phase of live action gaming

Jon Cheng, a coder and a member of the gaming company Randori, made something that would make any gamer drool.

Using Augmented Reality (AR), a deviation from VR that deals with direct or indirect interaction of the real and virtual world, Cheng created Time Trial.

Jon Cheng approached Brooklyn Boulders, a rock climbing facility, to use Time Trial, an AR video game developed by his company Randori.

What Time Trial does is quite simple! With the help of projectors, it projects numbers on the wall, for the climbers to climb and tag, before the timer runs out.

Alex Graziano, the marketing manager at the Brooklyn Boulders told Wired, "Our team was stoked on the idea, and more than happy to give Jon whatever he needed to make Time Trial happen. Our community instantly took to his creation."

This is just one of the many games that have been launched in the market of late, that uses AR interfacing. With the development of this technology, the VR gaming market will have a tough competition as AR would be have numerous more possibilities in real-world gaming.

Just imagine playing Call of Duty at your back alley!

As of now, Cheng is expanding Time Trial  to include other gyms, but he has plans for development of a "Flappy Bird-style game", which would be an add-on to climbing games.

Watch the video here.