Night Terrors: Bloody Mary is AR horror from Paranormal Activity’s director

Virtual reality is an excellent tool for horror game because when you wear a VR headset, it feels like you’re transported to another world. You can look and move around in full 360-degrees, reach out and touch things, and hear every whisper from all directions. But what about AR horror games?

Instead of transporting you to another world — a place you can easily remind yourself is fake — AR horror games instead invade your real world. With Night Terrors: Bloody Mary from Imprezario Entertainment, that’s accomplished by peering through your smartphone as if it’s a window into an alternate version of your world that reveals ghosts, possessed beings, and more, but that’s just the beginning of what’s possible for AR gaming.