{
  "id": 6178313,
  "title": "Building an On-Device AR Game With MediaPipe, PixiJS, and Capacitor",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/building-an-on-device-ar-game-with-mediapipe-pixijs-and-capacitor",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-07T20:42:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "HackerNoon",
    "slug": "hackernoon",
    "url": "https://hackernoon.com/building-an-on-device-ar-game-with-mediapipe-pixijs-and-capacitor?source=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In 2026, Venezuelan national AURADUEL was developed to bring aura battles into a measurable sport through on-device AR, without humiliation and with the player's body in motion. The game's creator, who grew up in a remote village in Zulia, Venezuela, had a passion for technology and science from a young age. After graduating with degrees in Geology and completing a diploma in contemporary art photography, he became a Spanish citizen in 2025 and moved to Switzerland.\n\nThe inspiration for AURADUEL came from the popular aura farming trend on social media, which was born from bullying and fear of self-expression in children and teenagers. The game was designed to be a fun system that adds magic and spark, with a single rule that nobody loses in a humiliating way. Biometrics for gesture and pose are processed on the phone, with no data leaving the device. The AR effects are drawn in real-time with PixiJS on top of the camera, and it is a Progressive Web App wrapped with Capacitor for iOS. The game follows strict rules, including paying never improving the result, no loot boxes, no vote buying, on-screen image consent before every battle, no open chat, and no livestream.",
  "summary": "From a village in Zulia to the App Store: how an immigrant working construction in Zurich built AURADUEL, an on-device AR game for teens, for Shipaton 2026.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}