ROOM RACERS: Mixed Reality Gaming (Nov 2010 version)

[Morlunapp]

You should do a Tron game with this!

[SeymourDrayton]

This is brilliant! I would definitely love to have this in my camera. :D

[Terminator6817]

What's that word that starts with W and ends with OW? Oh yeah, WOW!

[rationsauce]

wow, and i was like thinking of a kinect hack for this. but you beat me to it plus you used a normal friggin camera with imageprocessing only. fucking hell i salute you bro. :)

[lievenvv]

@rationsauce Thx, man! I was actually pretty surprised that no one had done this before... (well, as far as I know)

Anyway, you gotta love image processing ;D Even when you do use Kinect!

[hilcoklinkert]

Awesome! Toy track meets Tron meets real life :-)

[6c333374]

man I need this stuff :)

please, where can I buy it?

[Tiamat583]

Ooo, that looks like fun!!

[shuksnet]

Very nice! I wonder if it would work on my whiteboard. Did you try projecting the game to a whiteboard and just drawing lines as a ciruit?

[lievenvv]

@shuksnet yep, that works just fine too ;)

[Duvalman96]

You need to patent this and sell it to sony or nintendo. Get rich quick mate



[ILCOSTI]

where can i donwnload it?

[lievenvv]

Hey guys,

Thanks for all your love and great responses!! I really appreciate it!

And thanks to this weekend's Indigo crowd and crew: you were the greatest :)

Stay tuned!

Bless, Lieven

[GingeRastamon]

fucking beautiful, wish i lived next door.

[kumquatmagoo]

I thought the song was my phone vibrating. That high.

[TheKingPhisher]

GENIUS!!!

[nobocks]

With a good angle detection you can simulate real 3D rendering maibe

[nobocks]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaa neeeeed

[frag971]

One person is from the stone age and thinks this is vile sorcery!

[lievenvv]

@frag971 nah, THIS is sorcery ;) youtube.com/watch?v=kIhf43ub87­A

[thephaseshifter]

I played this @ the Mediamatic in Amsterdam, This was awesome, Lot of game fun.!!

[dragondeth48]

Woah! This is amazing! I love it!

[WillP999]

This is amazing! Excellent work.

[flashkiddy]

Could you shed some light on how you've built it? Which technology? Programming language, frameworks etc?

[lievenvv]

@flashkiddy I usually work with C# and DirectX/HLSL. The image-processing of the night-vision cam is all done right on the GPU, running my (modified) interpretation of Canny's edge detector. This code has actually been improved since, and I have switched to a better camera. The object collision physics are also custom and done on the CPU.

Still a work in progress, and much has already been improved since the video. Please stay tuned for Trailer #2!!

[flashkiddy]

@lievenvv thanks for the swift reply. Funny thing is that I saw your 1st trailer and was kinda blown away by how cool the game is. Then I followed an OpenFrameworks workshop at MediaMatic Bank a few days later and discovered that your game is exhibited right in the same room. Played it, loved it. I figured you were using a Kinect but it's pure imageprocessing. Didn't expect that.

[lievenvv]

@flashkiddy Thx, that expo is great man :) I may even come with an updated version there soon!

I had a first look at Kinect: sadly by itself the resolution is not really high enough. Now I'm thinking of a hybrid solution, but Kinect's IR projector will probably screw up the IR webcam. Perhaps i will try dual modified PS3 cameras for 3D object detection. That would be wicked :)

BTW; hooking up an HD camera also workes...

[aphaeh]

What's the music?

[lievenvv]

@aphaeh seriously guys, it says right in the info what the music is... :S

[SeiFong]

Will you someday "sell it" or post a "How to make your own" tutorial ?

[lievenvv]

@SeiFong yes, absolutely! I might try and sell it, license it, offer a tutorial or even the runtime/source. Just give me some time, I will definitely publish it in one form or another.

[knuckledragger]

Excellent work!! en hele dikke track, waar kan ik die vinden? :D

[lievenvv]

@knuckledragger ik weet niet waar je hem kan vinden maar zie de info :)

[flashkiddy]

BEST. GAME. EVER. Can i download this anywhere to build it in my own setup? Is it open source by any chance?

[lievenvv]

@flashkiddy thx man! it is currently not available (yet). in the future perhaps it will be, in one form or another...

[tookarf]

cool programming but annoying sound

[lievenvv]

@tookarf the tune is great, man. try it on a proper soundsystem. ;)

[Jhonbxl]

Oooh, this seems so fun. And the infinity of tracks... Love the concept. Nice work !

[bibiahah]

Truly awesome.

[Abakerbast]

Very impressive, really. Keep creating guys, you are good.

[AndreasEDDM]

That is so awesom. !!!

[Kraeuterhexilein]

i need this..... and the music is great :D

[Slashouts]

Excellent stuff. I can't believe how well it recognize the stuff you put on the ground as obstacles.

At this point you don't even need "real ones" you could project the whole circuit on the ground, that would make it easier to setup, clean up, and change circuits.

Just one thing though, the music in the video is painful to the ears...

[Yoodaawg]

@Slashouts The whole point is using real life objects. You are duuuumb

[Slashouts]

@Yoodaawg And you are so smart. Think I didn't know that?

My point is that this kind of circuit takes time to make and clean up. This is so well done that you could make circuits that you can swap quickly to project on the ground.

[fenrhyl]

OMFG!

[paulokoko]

Awesome !!

[Enkimy]

I NEED IT. NOW !

[MaloneXI]

Hey , awesome work guys !

Do you have anywebsite so that we could follow the project ?

[lievenvv]

@MaloneXI you found it man :)

[lievenvv]

@TheUtubemaestro working on it.. i'm just one guy btw :D

[TheMrJop]

Very very cool!

[jogsen]

i need the music!

[lievenvv]

@jogsen Quarta330 - Bleeps From Outer Space

[3uho]

the possibilities are endless !

[SquigglyP]

This could be a somewhat affordable setup if you used a cheap webcam and one of those pico projectors you can get for like $100. Maybe $200 for hardware. Also, maybe instead of projecting onto a floor, perhaps projecting onto a whiteboard and drawing the tracks with dry-erase markers? That would make for one hell of a fun little game and wouldn't be as difficult to set up as mounting a projector and webcam to face down and then littering the floor with stuff. Would that setup work?

[lievenvv]

@SquigglyP yep, that would work fine :)

[PixelProspector]

very impressive! :)

[TheEnlightenedFool]

THIS IS EXTREMELY AWESOME!!!!!!! very nice job!!!! I want one tooooo!!!

[maddinfrei]

so THIS is augmented reality...

[lievenvv]

thx for all the great responses!

iridon you're right, there's tons of games that i could make for this :) future versions could also include depth and object recognition to make things even cooler :)

[vortex3k]

oh my god, this is absolutely awesome! :D

[iridon]

This is amazing, I see a ton of potential, you could do the same thing with a shooter like Alien Swarm

[roidroid]

excellent, you are a powerhouse of innovation.

[lievenvv]

@roidroid wow.. now that's a compliment! thanks buddy, and stay tuned for more...

[SpookyFan]

Cool, well done.

[BDolf030]

Is it opensource?

[lievenvv]

@BDolf030 sorry, nope...

[skarnl]

Gaaaf! Valt dit ergens te download/kopen? Of is het nog een prototype en komt het later nog ergens uit?

Dit is echt gewoon super vet!

[lievenvv]

@skarnl nog niet te koop/downloaden, maar niet echt een prototype meer.. Kom 4 december naar Tivoli, als t doorgaat kan je daar spelen :)

[RogueNL]

Wat gaaf gedaan zeg! :-)

[1wilco12]

cool

[2007storm2007]

WOW.. Amazing

[LevisChillin]

Very impressive! I'm curious, what image processing algo(s) did you use for tracking the obstacles?

[lievenvv]

@LevisChillin here I just use Canny's, running on the GPU. It can be combined with background differencing if your floor is not uniform..

[lievenvv]

thanks, guys!!

[ghuijser]

wow, lookin good!!

[kirdikt]

looks great :) happy for you!