Randori is creating augmented reality climbing walls in Brooklyn Boulders gyms.
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This augmented reality demo shows how you can turn rock wall climbing into a game

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Everybody knows that gaming could be big on augmented reality (the process of adding computer-generated images to your actual view of the real world), but they haven’t really shown what would be fun. But a video made by Brooklyn Boulders and startup Randori shows how augmented reality could be used to make a timed game out of rock wall climbing.

The video below gives you a little taste of the future of augmented reality. Augmented reality glasses firm Magic Leap confirmed just yesterday that it has raised $793.5 million from Alibaba Group and other investors. And tech advisor Digi-Capital estimates that augmented reality will be a $90 billion market by 2020.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.