Collocated Virtual Reality and Real-World Games using Wearables

Collocated Virtual Reality and Real-World Games using Wearables

We presented the following demo at the CHI PLAY ’19 conference in Barcelona:“Virtual Reality (VR) gaming environments can recreate dangerous or even physically impossible situations in an immersive way. However, VR players are isolated from the real world and the...
Holographic Acoustic Tweezers

Holographic Acoustic Tweezers

Holographic optical tweezers use focused light to manipulate multiple objects independently without contact. They are used in tasks such as measuring the spring constant of DNA, the pulling force of the kinesin protein, or to trap matter in exotic states. Differently,...
Manipulation Technique for Mobile Augmented Reality

Manipulation Technique for Mobile Augmented Reality

Handheld devices are capable of displaying augmented environments in which virtual content overlaps reality. To interact with these environments it is necessary to use a manipulation technique. The objective of a manipulation technique is to define how the input data...
CollARt: 3D collages mobile augmented reality

CollARt: 3D collages mobile augmented reality

A collage is an artistic composition made by assembling different parts to create a new whole. This procedure can be applied for assembling tridimensional objects. In this paper we present CollARt, a Mobile Augmented Reality application which permits to create 3D...
Avatarians: Playing with your Friends’ Data

Avatarians: Playing with your Friends’ Data

This article describes a new game mechanic called Game Entity Social Mapping (GESM) based on using social networking data fetched from a remote site about the player and his contacts to create characters, items or scenarios. A preliminary evaluation consisting of...
PhotoPieces: A Smart Phone Tool to Create Photo Collages

PhotoPieces: A Smart Phone Tool to Create Photo Collages

This paper presents the application PhotoPieces, a software tool which allows people to create photo collages on the fly in a camera-equipped handheld device using predefined or custom templates. Users can also create their own templates on-the- fly taking a photo and...