Robot ARena: an infrastructure for game development with spatial augmented reality. / Robot ARena: uma infra-estrutura para o desenvolvimento de jogos com realidade aumentada espacial.
AUTOR(ES)
Daniel Calife
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008
RESUMO
Nowadays Electronic Games have a great importance in the economic sector, in computing and in academic research, not limited only to entertainment applications. In the search for innovation in gameplay and in the interactive interfaces of electronic games, Augmented Reality is one of the new frontiers to be explored. This work presents the research, development and testing of an infrastructure, called Robot ARena, for the development of innovative games using the Spatial Augmented Reality and new interfaces that this technology allows. Based on horizontal interfaces with elements of hardware and software, Robot ARena has a flexible architecture that enables different ways of interaction and visualization. Another aspect planned for this project is the control and communication of robots, which can be used as avatars in games. The concepts involved, Electronic Games and Spatial Augmented Reality, are discussed, as well as the work that inspired some aspects of this infrastructure. A Robot ARena prototype was implemented, tested and used in the development of two games prototypes, FootBot ARena and TanSpace, which brings new challenges to the infrastructure, such as exploration of the influence of virtual objects in real objects and the application of tangible interfaces.
ASSUNTO(S)
virtual reality realidade virtual electronic games computer-human interface interface homem-computador computação gráfica jogos eletrônicos computer graphics
