Creating ubiquitous interactive games using everywhere displays projectors

Abstract

This paper introduces the Everywhere Displays projector, a device that uses a rotating mirror to steer the light from an LCD projector onto different surfaces of an environment and a pan/tilt camera to sense interaction with the projected surface. The ED-projector is a generic I/O ubiquitous device that is able to create graphical interfaces on non-wired surfaces, to access computational power and networked data. Also, ED-projectors can be used to augment reality without the use of goggles. In both cases, ED-projectors can be used to create a new generation of games that are played by one or more users on the real world, without requiring them to wear goggles neither asking for specially wired surfaces or objects. Some ideas of the games that can be created with the ED-projector are introduced and examined. © 2003 by Springer Science+Business Media New York.