Project Number

288

Title

Enhanced Reality: A New Frontier for Computer Entertainment

Description

Enhanced-reality solution for home entertainment applications with consumer hardware and props.

Contact

Richard Marks

Affiliation

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.

Address

919 East Hillsdale Boulevard 
Foster City, California 94404 
+1.650.655.5616

E-mail

richard_marks@playstation.sony.com

WWW

Year

2001

Reference

SIGGRAPH 2001 Conference Abstracts and Applications

Project Details

"Enhanced reality is a new form of computer entertainment that combines live video and computer graphics to produce real-time, movie-like special effects. Because the user is directly involved, enhanced reality can be more personalized and more engaging than traditional computer entertainment (video games). In the enhanced reality demonstrations of this exhibit, participants interact with a virtual character, play with virtual butterflies, interact with virtual crawling spiders, and engage in magic duels." 
 
Targeted at home computer entertainment in typical living or family rooms with, when required, simple props, there are two techniques used to achieve effective enhanced reality: 
 
1 - Interpretation - extracting information about participant/environment through video processing such as 3D position of special props or lighting model of scene 
 
2 - Enhancement - modifying video imagery to produce a desired effect such as rendering synthetic objects that look real 
 
This work is implemented on PlayStation2, displayed on a standard television set, and uses an inexpensive (

Sight

PlayStation2 graphics platform, Webcam

Sound

native audio, TV speakers

Touch

physical props

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

2 - Prototype, Components, Testing

Intent

2 - Technique (paradigm, human)

Primary

205 - tangible / gesture interface

Secondary

309 - entertainment

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 

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