City Adventure

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Mobile Platform for Augmented Reality Game Yang Liu Zhen Zeng Juntian Xia CITY ADVENTURE

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City Adventure. Mobile Platform for Augmented Reality Game Yang Liu Zhen Zeng Juntian Xia. Motivation. How To Play??. How about… Role Playing Game (RPG) in physical world? Interweave with virtual characters and stories!. Connection. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Mobile Platform for Augmented Reality Game

Yang Liu

Zhen Zeng

Juntian Xia

CITY ADVENTURE

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MOTIVATION• How about…

• Role Playing Game (RPG) in physical world?

• Interweave with virtual characters and stories!

How To Play??

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CONNECTION• If we know how to connect physical world with the virtual one…

• Location: Where am I?

• Orientation: What am I looking at?

• Triggers: If I want to press a button?

• Now, we can know all these by mobile devices!

Wander
视角怎么说?
Wander
现在,我们的android程序已经能够读取位置信息、角度信息和触发事件。(后面详述)怎么表达?
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THEN, WHAT TO DO?

Virtual Heritage Restoration Magic School Decoration

Rendering

Wander
装修效果图怎么表达?
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VIRTUAL HERITAGE RESTORATION

Game map:3D model for the “restored” Old Summer Palace

Look

Render

You look at the ruins with your cellphone

Enjoy the full glory of what you are looking at!

The device knows your location and perspective

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RPG: FROM OBSERVER TO PLAYER

Interesting?Not Yet!Make it interactive

Animated character

Dialog happened when you are closed

to the NPC

Triggers:Tag in the physical world

(See technical part below for details)

Accept a mission by trigger the event point

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MAGIC SCHOOL

Look

Render

Experience Harry Potter’s life in your campus!

Play role playing game in your campuswith NPCs and your friends.

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DECORATION RENDERING• I bought a new house. It is empty.

• A decoration company designed the decoration solution.

• How will my room look like? Preview by our platform…

Look

Render

Remember:What you are looking at,What you will get from the screen.

Wander
装修效果图怎么表达?
Wander
怎么表达
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TECHNOLOGY OF AUGMENTED REALITYPhysical vs. Virtual

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AUTOMATIC VIEW ORIENTATION• Where am I looking at?

• Solution 1:

• 3-axis accelerometers

• and digital compass

• Solution 2:

• 3-axis gyroscope

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LOCATING SYSTEM• Where am I?

• Outdoor

• A-GPS

• Base Station

• Indoor: Wi-Fi

• MAC Address

• Signal Power

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TRIGGERS• If I want to press a button?

• Concept

• A “trigger” is a physical object that stores specific data which can be quickly and correctly read by mobile device.

• Implementation

• 2-D barcode

• NFC Tag

• Purpose

• Accurate location verification.

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TRIGGERS• Accurate location verification vs. locating system

• Consider a treasure hunting game

• How to determine that the player find the treasure?

Near Enough → Find

Open the box and take a picture at the 2-D barcode → Find

Verification

Locating

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SUMMARY• Mobile Platform for Augmented Reality Game

• Connecting physical world and virtual world

• View orientation

• Locating

• Triggers

• Role playing games in reality

• See past or future (Heritage Restoration)

• Build a fantastic world (Magic School)

• …