"CartooNect" for Laval Virtual ReVolution 2011 (LQ)

CartooNect: Sensory motor playing system using cartoon actions

CartooNect is a VR game system that used KINECT by the motion of whole body based on child's imagination by manga actions. In our plan of experiment, children or adult draw a picture by hand drawing on paper that background and properties like the world in manga and/or picture book. When a player stand in front of the system, the player's whole body is displayed to player in a real time with the drawn picture as a background and they can move free to play as an actor in virtual world. The outline of the system is that the effect happens on the screen according to the operation recognized because KINECT connected with the computer does the operation decided beforehand while controlled by OpenNI. When player make a pose, the visual and the sound effect can be reproduced to decorate their imagination. This project tells a message to children to show and share their kiddy imagination using whole body expressions. Through the embodiment of their own hero and the heroine imaginations using a latest VR techniques, visitors can enjoy to create the world interactively, collaboratively, freely, then they may understand new function of virtual reality motivations is not only in the computer but also human imaginations.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• KINECT
• Laval
• Virtual
• ReVolution
• 2011