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Ubi-FX: Ubiquitous Effects with Multiple Pan-Tilt Projector and Camera Units for Entertainment

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We describe our Ubi-FX system that projects visual effects onto the environment and the player's body to enhance a video game. We achieve our concept with compact pan-tilt units that contain a projector and stereo camera. The camera works to recognize both the player and background, and the projector projects visual effects onto them. By using pan-tilt motions, the system provides a wide variety of visual effects. Also, our pan-tilt unit is really simple and compact, so users can set multiple units and arrange their position and angle to project more complex visual effects. In this paper, we describe our Ubi-FX, focusing on implementation and applications through system demonstrations.

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PerDis '15: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Displays
June 2015
268 pages
ISBN:9781450336086
DOI:10.1145/2757710
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  1. Augmented Reality
  2. Image Processing
  3. Video Game
  4. Virtual Reality
  5. Visual Effect

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