While we’ve seen many companies trying to capitalize on mobile devices to push their gaming accessories, a French startup known as ePawn is working on something unique called as ePawn Arena. The ePawn Arena brings the game on your iOS or an Android device to a larger screen with a touch and motion-tracking experience.
Apt for board games, ePawn integrates its technology in a normal 26-inch display that makes the display detect touch as well as track game pieces with the help of embedded tags. The tags are integrated in the game pieces, which ePawn will provide or sell them separately to tag any user’s game pieces.
As a proof of concept, ePawn showed us couple of games – Air Hockey and other one was a turn-based war game and the touch responsiveness along with motion tracking was pretty good.
ePawn plans to release the SDK soon for game developers to take advantage of ePawn Arena.
ePawn Arena is expected to launch in the second half of this year for a price of around $300-$400.
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