BLADESHIPS: An Interactive Attraction in Mixed Reality

Our purpose is to construct a new type interactive attraction which detects the user’s hand actions as triggers in a multi-participated mixed reality environment. “BLADESHIPS” is a game in which players compete with each other controlling virtually expressed belt-shaped flying objects, which are called “ships”, in the real environment, trying to drive each other hit real/virtual obstacles. For the purpose of reproducing subtle and spatially varying material properties of the real object, we use a 3D scanner and a high-resolution camera.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ISMAR
• Authors: Masayuki Takemura, Shungo Haraguchi
• Keywords: Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2003, Mixed Reality Environment, Type Interactive Attraction, User’s Hand Actions