BANDAI NAMCO showed off its latest foray into the cutting edge with Pac in Town, a Hololens “mixed reality” game, at the recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, US.
Hololens is a Microsoft product that essentially is a holographic computer built into a headset that lets you see, hear, and interact with holograms within an environment such as a living room or an office space.
Pac in Town, of course, features BANDAI NAMCO’s iconic Pac-Man. It was initially released in January this year at BANDAI NAMCO’s Namja Town, an indoor theme park at Sunshine City mall in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. It is an experience where up to three players don a headset which places them in an augmented reality Pac-Man maze. The participants then have to walk through, collecting dots as a team. If they can avoid the ghosts and collect enough dots before the timer runs out, they win. One feature even sees players needing to activate cherries and the famous power pills for extra points, but these only trigger if the players physically high-five each other.
