Mixed Reality Entertainment Research Articles

Mixed Reality Entertainment and Art

Social and physical interactions are new paradigms that outline the vision of the next generation of entertainment. We can provide these interactions through employment of technologies such as mixed reality to merge the human physical world with the virtual game world. However, there are a few obstacles in achieving physical, mobile, tangible and social interaction for people's entertainment. The authors had organized a workshop on this topic of "Mixed Reality Entertainment and Art" at the ISMAR 2007 conference in Nara, and the presentations are summarized in this paper. Furthermore, the authors detail their related systems, including BlogWall, MediaMe, and Shared Design Space to provide artistic and entertainment mixed reality.

Social and physical interactive paradigms for mixed-reality entertainment

This article outlines an overview of new paradigms in social and physical interaction in mixed-reality entertainment. Social and physical interactions are constrained, and thus natural interactions are lost in most current digital entertainment systems. In order to regain natural interactions, we argue that mixed-reality technology has great potential for promoting social and physical interactions. In this article we present five research prototype systems, Magic Land, Human Pacman, Kyoto Garden, Poultry Internet, and Free Network Visible Network (FNVN), to explain methods to regain natural social and physical interactions in mixed-reality entertainment. We believe these systems are part of a new form of entertainment based on physicality, mobility, tangible social interaction, and ubiquitous computing. Some details, benefits, and issues regarding design are discussed.

Adrian David Cheok

Prof. Adrian David Cheok is Director of the Interaction and Entertainment Research Center, incorporating Mixed Reality Lab, at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has been working on research covering mixed reality, human-computer interaction, wearable computers and smart spaces, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics, and multi-modal recognition. He was IEEE Singapore Section Chairman 2003, and is presently ACM SIGCHI Chapter President. In the video interview, you will hear Adrian's answers to the following questions:1. What is mixed reality entertainment?2. Can you tell us about your research on social and physical gaming such as Human Pacman and Age Invaders?3. Tell us about your work on the Internet Pajamas.4. What is your vision for the next generation entertainment technology?5. You are the founder of the Singapore Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, what do you like most about running the ACM chapter?