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Thursday, 26 May 2011

Team Rocket Capture AR game OR Pokemon Care Garden/Interactive forest

Just quick notes

DSi (needs 2 cameras and mic or at least 1 camera and touch panel)

- Using DSi to walk around your place/garden/school whatever and see pokemon.
- Camera sees surroundings and places pokemon appropriately. Birds in air, pikachu in grass etc
- Microphone picks up noise. have to be quiet to sneak up on pokemon. from behind (can only sneak up on pokemon facing wrong way. Ones facing you run when they see the tools) Too much noise makes them flee
- Use interactive screen to select net and capture
- OR similar to pokemon ranger and use looping motions like the stylus but with lasso.


Could also NOT be Team Rocket. Could be friendly kid

- Interaction system like Nintendogs after pokemon become friendly
- Relationships gained with 'bribes' (candy, fruit, toys for pokemon)
- Can approach from any direction but still if you're too noisy, they run unless they trust you (friendly)
- Can customise them (clothes, hair dye or whatever) to define friends from unknown ones.

MY IDEA!! DON'T STEAL :P

If anyone feels like helping me implement something similar, Just message me

VR interactive info person

While on my bus journey home, I thought some more about the possibilities of sensor activated technology and where it can be implemented.

In a library? Technology Expo?

Imagine a glass panel with a character projected on (in?) the glass. With 3 embedded (behind the glass? above?) cameras, it could recognise who you are via a face recognition with the database within the building (ID cards w/ pictures etc) or scan for a chip in your ID card and assume that is you.

The character could interact with you on a VR basis. Look directly at your face (Kinect style body recognition)
Have keyword recognition. It could ask questions and you saying 'yes' or 'no' would make it react differently.

Library in our college example:

Scan you (or card)
"Hello <Name>. What would you like to do? Return Book? Extend Loan Time? Enquire about availability?"
"Return Book"
"Ok, Please scan the bar code on the book"
So you scan the book
"Thank you. Please place the book in the slot to the left"

Done


Or

If you enquire about it's availability, it would tell you on what shelf it should be on. If it is out, it could tell you when it's due back in and you can ask for a notification for when it's back. Reserve the book automatically till you're back.




At an Expo, it's information is pre determined. All it has to do is look at you, scan your chip and spew the information back at you. Nothing difficult




How difficult would this be to implement?