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A VR Game Platform Built Upon Wireless Sensor Network

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2006)

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This paper presents a VR game platform built upon wireless sensor network (WSN). The WSN is composed of multiple beacons and a receiver. Each beacon transmits both an ultrasonic pulse and the RF message at the same time. Then, the receiver attached to a moving device uses the standard time difference of arrival technique to estimate its distance from each beacon. The estimated distances are passed to the context-aware game server, which computes the location of the receiver. The location data are fed into VR games, and determine the virtual device’s motion. The prototype implementation proves that WSN and VR games can be neatly integrated, and can lead to a new type of natural interface for the next-generation game.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

    Doo-seop Eom & Taeyoung Kim

  2. Game Research Center, College of Information and Communications, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

    Jungshik Jang & JungHyun Han

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

    Paolo Remagnino

  6. Intel, 95052, Santa Clara, CA, USA

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  7. University of California, 430, Computer Science Building, 92697-3425, Irvine, CA, USA

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  8. Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization, P.O. Box

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  9. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech

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  10. Rockwell Scientific, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, 91360, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

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  11. Computer Graphics Group, Bielefeld University, D-33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Holger Theisel

  12. Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Tom Malzbender

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Eom, Ds., Jang, J., Kim, T., Han, J. (2006). A VR Game Platform Built Upon Wireless Sensor Network. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4292. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11919629_16

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