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Justin Gold Patrick Lupiani. Distance Tabletop Gaming. The Goal. Enhance the experience of t raditional tabletop gaming over long distance Make it as ‘natural’ feeling as possible High levels of social Interaction More than just a virtual version of a board game Fun!. The Table. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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DISTANCE TABLETOP GAMING

Justin GoldPatrick Lupiani

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The Goal Enhance the experience of traditional

tabletop gaming over long distanceMake it as ‘natural’ feeling as possibleHigh levels of social InteractionMore than just a virtual version of a board

gameFun!

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The Table Based on the design of a collaborative

product with MITRE Multi-touch and gestural interface Real and virtual objects Networking Telepresence

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The Vision Extend the table to include

Interactable gaming widgets○ Dice, spinners, etc.

Structured interactionsAI based gaming

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The Competition Microsoft Surface E-Whiteboards Tablet Computers

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We can do that plus… Object scanning Cheaper than most other solutions Gestural tracking with Kinect includes

height data Did we mention the object scanning

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Implementation Libfreenect .NET/C# Extensive use of computer vision Finger/Hand Tracking Intended to be ported to the SDK

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Bumps in the road Base table took longer to implement Kinect resolution issues Limited hand tracking capabilities

No built in skeletons for hands Kinect is a resource hog Calibration to back projection Top Projection very light sensitive

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If we knew then what we know now Program structure Kinect Issues

Depth limitationsRelative immaturity of the drivers

Wait for SDK

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Where could it go… Library of playable games Build-a-game framework More complex gaming structure

Tabletop RPG gamesTabletop war gamesCards

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On with the show… Demonstration of table