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Viewdle Lauches 'Third Eye' Augmented Reality Game

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Photo sharing and gaming are two of the hottest areas for mobile apps. Start-up Viewdle, which already has a photo sharing app SocialCamera based on facial recognition technology, is launching a new mobile game, Third Eye, using its photo technology.

To play the Android-based fantasy/medieval themed game, people hold up the app to a person's face to determine if they are a Vampire or a Vampire Slayer. Viewdle's facial recognition technology makes a decision, assessing your inner monster. Based on which side you're on, you then can look for others to join your clan.

The objective of the game is to build a large army and form alliances with other players while taking out enemies.

People also join a particular warrior family or clan. Viewdle determines if there are others nearby that you can tap to join your growing clan of creatures.

This is the first of three related augmented reality apps that Viewdle has planned. Subsequent apps will bring even more augmented reality to the games, with the ability for the apps to identify objects from the real world for use in the battle, says Marisol MacGregor, Viewdle’s head of product management.

Viewdle previously released SocialCamera (see my story here), an app with powerful facial recognition technology that enables people to take photos of friends and through facial recognition technology, instantly autotag and share photos with friends in the photos.