"Miruko" the Wearable Eyeball Robot for Game System

"Miruko" is a wearble eyeball-shaped robotic game interface created by YUKAI-Engineering, in Japanese, ユカイ工学.
http://ux-xu.com/

The main objective of the robot system is to extend our body and sensing ability.
The eyeball robot has a wi-fi module in order to communicate with host computer or with other devices
and has a wireless CMOS camera embedded in the iris of the robot.
By using this robotic interface and iphone, we realized virtual monster capturing game in real world environment described below.

GOAL: Capture virtual monsters existing everywhere around us, which are not visible to our own eyes.

Procedure:
1. Miruko helps us to find virtual monsters by its ability of gazing at and tracking them.
Each player wears one robotic eyeball 'Miruko' on his or her arm and chases those monsters by seeing how the eyeball looks around daily real environment.

2.When Miruko finds a monster, its eyeball starts to gaze at one point where the monster hides.
Then, the player can try to capture the monster by shooting a photograph at the point where Miruko looks at using his or her own iPhone.


Creators:
- Takao Watanabe = http://twitter.com/robotjp
- Shunsuke Aoki = http://twitter.com/aopico
- Yukari Hori = http://twitter.com/yukaripuu
- Takashi Sagisaka = http://twitter.com/sagiii

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• robot
• eyeball
• robotic
• eye
• iphone
• YUKAI-Engineering
• ユカイ工学
• ロボティクス
• ベンチャー

[peacefrog12321]

what the hell

[light24bulbs]

i fundamentally do not understand what this is.

[WiFeSLaYer]

Man these japanse got way too much time on their hands

[MobilersVibrantCoast]

I think you'd enjoy our video about an augmented reality video game app! Check it out on our channel, it's called MODROIDS! If it gets enough views/likes, Samsung Canada might make it happen!!

[darklight436]

i can see this as a great hat, but wtf, why a sleeve?

[luisbeck007]

Great idea...

[luisbeck007]

mlpreiss is the traumatized freaky because of stars wars movies and warmonger Nintendos; go to hell with your asshole old spychologist and weapons business.

[mlpreiss]

Way, way too freaky. Now those poor kids on the playground will need years of psychotherapy due to giant eyeball trauma, or GET.

[flysi]

It's like that huge sword from Soul Calibur!

[ericfis1]

Wait...Can you use this to see level 3 sex offenders?

[voxar]

I want a couple of those balls mounted on a wall staring at bypassers

[mlbazan11]

Chinese guy with camera sees monster on child's face, proceeds to beat child with iphone until monster is gone. Guy dances away happiliy.....