Enhancing Traditional Games with Augmented Reality Technologies

Digital technologies are useful to enhance existing traditional games to increase their pleasure. In many games, digital technologies can add special effects to excite a player emotionally. However, the technologies are also useful to help a player to learn complex rules in the games. Especially, traditional games like a poker are not easy to learn for beginners so many recent young people lose interests to play the games. In this paper, we present AR-Hold'em that is an enhanced Texas Hold'em poker game with augmented reality technologies. We also present some user studies showing the effectiveness of our approach.