RPG: Mirrorscape Launches Augmented Reality VTT Into Free Open Beta
The reality might be augmented, but Mirrorscape’s Open Beta tabletop is entirely real and available now on Android/iOS.
It wasn’t too long ago that we heard the news of Paizo partnering with up-and-coming Augmented Reality/Virtual Tabletop developer Mirrorscape, who want to break down the barriers between the physical and digital worlds to bring all your digital gaming needs to an actual tabletop. Just one that you interact with through your device.
Essentially it’s a virtual table on an actual top. All your maps, minis, and character sheets can be kept in the realm of cyberspace, on a little exit just off the information superhighway. While you and your friends are sitting around a table in real life, enjoying snacks and sharing space together.
Is this the future of RPGs? Will it actually be any good and easy to use? The answer to both is in the palm of your hands right now, because Mirrorscape has launched their Open Beta on both Android and iOS devices. Check it out.
Mirrorscape Open Beta Launches – Augmented Reality, Virtual Tabletop
When you download the app, you get a free starter set, which includes virtual terrain from both Fat Dragon Games and Dwarven Forge, as well as access to virtual minis from Reaper Miniatures. You can also link a Hero Forge account to integrate your digital renders as well as get five additional Hero Forge minis along with whatever you already have.
Okay but what does that all actually mean? Well, per Mirrorscape:
Mirrorscape is the first of its kind, a visualization tool that delivers an authentic 3D experience using the magic of augmented reality you already own on your mobile device. Mirrorscape has partnered with industry leaders like Dwarven Forge, Fat Dragon Games, Hero Forge, Reaper Miniatures, Norse Foundry, and Death Saves so that DMs/GMs and players can build and play with digital twins of the terrain, minis, and dice they love.
Mirrorscape aims to be the platform for endless creativity and boundless play and recently joined the Open RPG Creative license (ORC) to allow for universal, system-neutral play and to encourage innovation and collaboration in tabletop gaming, especially user-generated content and “homebrew” campaigns.
In a nutshell, a virtual tabletop you can interact with right in the same spot. Their driving goal is to make digital tools more accessible within the presence of physical space. Now how that all feels is anyone’s guess. Though you can get some firsthand experience right now.
Mirrorscape will let you play D&D, Pathfinder, and Starfinder at press time, but the team has plans for more, especially since the app is meant to be modular.
What do you think? Would you use Mirrorscape?
