LittleProjectedPlanet: An Augmented Reality Game for Camera Projector Phones

With the miniaturization of projection technology the integration of tiny projection units, normally referred to as pico projectors, into mobile devices is not longer fiction. Integrated pico pro jectors in mobile devices could make mobile projection ubiquitous within the next few years. Mobile phones with integrated pico pro jectors soon will have the ability to project large-scale information onto any surfaces in the real world. By doing so the interaction space of the mobile device can be expanded to physical ob jects in the environment and this can support interaction concepts that are not even possible on modern desktop computers today. In this video, we explore the possibilities of camera projector phones with a mobile adaption of the Playstation 3
game LittleBigPlanet. The camera projector unit is used to augment the hand drawings of a user with an overlay displaying physical interaction of virtual ob jects with the real world. Players can sketch a 2D world on a sheet of paper or use an existing physical configuration of ob jects and let the physics engine simulate physical procedures in this world to achieve game goals.

Contact: Johannes Schöning (johannes.schoening (at) gmail.com)

http://www.johannesschoening.de

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[SchoeningJohannes]

Hi AELaGT! You are right, that this is done on a laptop, but with the computanional limitations of a mobile device in mind. With that prototype we tried to overcome the limitations of pcio projectors/projector phone that they still have today. (just 10 lumens, ...) If you want to see a real mobile setup have a look at MapTorch Light Demo. Cheers, Johannes

[SchoeningJohannes]

Hi AELatGT!

You are right, that this is done on a laptop, but with the computanional limitations of a mobile device in mind. With that prototype we tried to overcome the limitations of pcio projectors/projector phone that they still have today. (just 10 lumens, ...) If you want to see a real mobile setup have a look at the MapTorchLight Demo. All stuff is done on the mobile device. Cheers, Johannes

[MarkusLoechtefeld]

the shared aspect with LBP is the total freedom in design imo and thats quite nice

[AELatGT]

Ok, it's a cute tech demo that's pretty basic, and gets the idea across.

But, while I understand the rhetoric of "mobile phones with projectors could do this", you could do a ton better given that you are implementing but it's a long way from little big planet (sharing what with it ... physics?) and given it seems to be done on a real computer (not a phone), you could do a lot better.