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Tangled reality

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Leonardo da Vinci was a strong advocate for using sketches to stimulate the human imagination. Sketching is often considered to be integral to the process of design, providing an open workspace for ideas. For these same reasons, children use sketching as a simple way to express visual ideas. By merging the abstraction of human drawings and the freedom of virtual reality with the tangibility of physical tokens, Tangled Reality creates a rich mixed reality workspace. Tangled Reality allows users to build virtual environments based on simple colored sketches and traverse them using physical vehicles overlayed with virtual imagery. This setup allows the user to “build” and “experience” mixed reality simulations without ever touching a standard computer interface.

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  1. Arts Computation Engineering, Calit2 Center of Gravity, Laboratory for Game Culture and Technology, The University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA

    Kevin Ponto, Falko Kuester, Robert Nideffer & Simon Penny

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Ponto, K., Kuester, F., Nideffer, R. et al. Tangled reality. Virtual Reality 12, 37–45 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-008-0086-x

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