Video gaming in a real world

[McFly]

You have to watch this, very cool:

http://sonix.sdv.fr:8080/ramgen/arte/tracks/20040603/immersion.rm

Fredi

 

[cthellis42]

That is utterly... fascinating!

 

[Evil_Cloud]

This might have a bright future...

 

[ChryZ]

Indeed, very nice!

 

[GwymWeepa]

I envision a pet game, much like Nintendogs, where your little dogs will virtually hump your leg.

 

[kyetech]

firewall blocked it...can anyone tell me what this is about, and what it shows?

 

[London Geezer]

I envision a pet game, much like Nintendogs, where your little dogs will virtually hump your leg.

You'd need a virtual leg first for the virtual humping to occurr.
By the way, i can't view this, what is it?

 

[Alejux]

Utterly fascinating, but utterly useless for games, IMO. But it may open new grounds for new types of games though. And it has potencial for theme parks and arcades.

 

[GwymWeepa]

I envision a pet game, much like Nintendogs, where your little dogs will virtually hump your leg.

You'd need a virtual leg first for the virtual humping to occurr.
By the way, i can't view this, what is it?

No, you don't, that's the point of this tech.

 

[AzBat]

It's augmented reality. Almost the exact opposite of virtual reality. I've been interested in this stuff because of some the GPS technology it uses. Some research has taken survey-grade RTK GPS systems like the ones we use in our company and used it for augmented reality. Think that video mixed with Pacman but outside in the realworld using special LCD goggles. BTW, survey-grade means sub-centimeter.

Tommy McClain

 

[AzBat]

I envision a pet game, much like Nintendogs, where your little dogs will virtually hump your leg.

You'd need a virtual leg first for the virtual humping to occurr.
By the way, i can't view this, what is it?

No, you don't, that's the point of this tech.

Are you sure? I thought you had to model the real world objects in the virtual world? Similar to the 1st Down Line in US Football on TV.

Tommy McClain

 

[McFly]

Only the car is a computer model, the rest comes from the cam(s).

Fredi

 

[AzBat]

Only the car is a computer model, the rest comes from the cam(s).

Fredi

I know the car is the model, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the stuff on the table isn't. Check the URL below. It shows different kinds of augmented reality: marker-based tracking, markerless tracking and model free. I suspect the one we saw above was similar to the markerless videos on the new URL.

http://www.irisa.fr/lagadic/demo/demo-ar3/demo-ar3-eng.html

BTW, I watched the video a couple of times and didn't see the other cameras. There was the TV camera for the RealVideo and the one camera on the PC desk for the augmented reality, but that's all I saw.

Tommy McClain

 

[London Geezer]

You know, i'm really not getting any of this so i'll just wait till i can see the video.

 

[Alejux]

You know, i'm really not getting any of this so i'll just wait till i can see the video.

Imagine a guy holding an invisble rose, and interacting with other invisble objects, only that in the computer monitor, you can see the rose, as if he was actually holding it, moving with an incredible precision according to his hand movements. This is what it's about. A camera that captures the person's movements, and generates an interaction with virtual objects. Was that clear?

 

[London Geezer]

You know, i'm really not getting any of this so i'll just wait till i can see the video.

Imagine a guy holding an invisble rose, and interacting with other invisble objects, only that in the computer monitor, you can see the rose, as if he was actually holding it, moving with an incredible precision according to his hand movements. This is what it's about. A camera that captures the person's movements, and generates an interaction with virtual objects. Was that clear?

That's what Eyetoy was trying to do, on a primitive level.

 

[Alejux]

That's what Eyetoy was trying to do, on a primitive level.

Yes. But if that video is true, these people have taken the whole virtual and real object interaction to a whole new level. It's simply perfect.

 

[McFly]

Only the car is a computer model, the rest comes from the cam(s).

Fredi

I know the car is the model, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the stuff on the table isn't. Check the URL below. It shows different kinds of augmented reality: marker-based tracking, markerless tracking and model free. I suspect the one we saw above was similar to the markerless videos on the new URL.

http://www.irisa.fr/lagadic/demo/demo-ar3/demo-ar3-eng.html

BTW, I watched the video a couple of times and didn't see the other cameras. There was the TV camera for the RealVideo and the one camera on the PC desk for the augmented reality, but that's all I saw.

Tommy McClain

All those "buildings" are real. The second webcam (a black one) is on the right side of the white webcam.

Fredi

 

[cthellis42]

You know, i'm really not getting any of this so i'll just wait till i can see the video.

Specifically, the guy summoned a platter with a CG car on it, which he then tilted a bit and the car slid off onto the real table, and bounced to a rest on it. Then they started driving it around, and it bounced, drove over, and otherwise interacted--with pretty believable physics--a whole bunch of terrain (think model train or Warhammer 40K land terrain) on the table. It even got caught on some slowly-rotating flat piece and forced backwards, and then driven under it when there was enough clearance.

Pretty fascinating. Especially since they were doing it all on the fly. ^_^ (Unless "markerless" means something else entirely in the "augmented reality" world?)

 

[RichardCypher101]

This has already been seen and discussed over at PSINext way back in the beginning of December: http://psinext.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4250

-Rich