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Heroes Reborn creator Tim Kring is embracing augmented reality and video games to permit fans to delve deeper into the show’s universe, beyond the 13-episode TV series run.
NBC partnered with V Squared Labs to create a Heroes Reborn 4D augmented reality experience, which used Xbox Kinect, interactive audio, and computer graphics to permit fans to experience pyro-kinetic super human abilities. It debuted at San Diego Comic Con in July and was recently used at Times Square in New York City in September to advertise the Sept. 24 launch of the show.
“I feel like augmented reality is where it’s all heading,” Kring says. “Virtual reality looks as if the stepping stone to augmented reality. VR is where we at the moment are, however the augmented reality experience—especially the one which we had at Comic Con—is the longer term. After all these years of doing this show and living on this world, I never actually had a moment where I felt like I had an influence, and that augmented reality experience was the closest thing I’ve ever had.”
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While just some fans were capable of play through Heroes Reborn 4D, everyone can play Heroes Reborn: Enigma, a first-person perspective puzzle mobile game that launches October 8 for $5.99. There’s also a PC and console game, Heroes Reborn: Gemini, coming this winter. Both games, which were designed by Imperative Entertainment and developer Phosphor, are set throughout the five 12 months gap between the Heroes and Heroes Reborn and explore latest storylines throughout the universe.
“I at all times wanted to include video games into this mythology but we didn’t have the time,” Kring says. “Loads has modified within the five years and we’re capable of do some of these things much earlier. We built it into the writers’ room so that there have been extensions from the series itself onto these two games.”
Kring says each of the games help unpack a number of the backstory that can change into familiar within the series.
“They are a companion piece, but it surely was really necessary to me that the writers and I be involved so that they’re not only crappy licensed games,” Kring says. “We really wanted them to face alone in order that the core gamers would actually find them cool. They’re going to be state-of-the-art beautiful premium games.”
And he sees potential for games moving forward throughout the mythology.
“Games could be an enormous thing for us to have the ability to maintain that world alive while we’re off serious about the subsequent version of the Heroes filmed content,” Kring says. “That’s at all times been a giant dream of mine. Games provide an actual world that keeps the canon and mythology of the show alive for the fans when the show is on hiatus.”
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