PokAR: Facilitating Poker Play Through Augmented Reality
Adam Gamba, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez

TL;DR
PokAR is a mobile augmented reality application that enhances poker gameplay by reducing physical and rule complexity, tested through user studies showing positive reception and slight pace increase.
Contribution
This paper presents the first AR poker app on mobile devices using a Snapchat Lens, demonstrating AR's potential to augment traditional card games without extra hardware.
Findings
Most features were positively received
AR did not significantly affect socialization
Slight increase in game pace
Abstract
We introduce PokAR, an augmented reality (AR) application to facilitate poker play. PokAR aims to alleviate three difficulties of traditional poker by leveraging AR technology: (1) need to have physical poker chips, (2) complex rules of poker, (3) slow game pace caused by laborious tasks. Despite the potential benefits of AR in poker, not much research has been done in the field. In fact, PokAR is the first application to enable AR poker on a mobile device without requiring extra costly equipment. This has been done by creating a Snapchat Lens which can be used on most mobile devices. We evaluated this application by instructing 4 participant dyads to use PokAR to engage in poker play and respond to survey questions about their experience. We found that most PokAR features were positively received, AR did not significantly improve nor hinder socialization, PokAR slightly increased the…
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TopicsVirtual Reality Applications and Impacts · Augmented Reality Applications · Gambling Behavior and Treatments
