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The magic lens box: simplifying the development of mixed reality games

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Richard Wetzel,

Staffan JohnsonAuthors Info & Claims

DIMEA '08: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

Pages 479 - 486

https://doi.org/10.1145/1413634.1413719

Published: 10 September 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Mixed Reality games are becoming more and more popular these days and offer unique experiences to the players. However, development of such games typically still requires expert knowledge and access to Mixed Reality toolkits or frameworks. In this paper, we present the so-called Magic Lens Box that follows a different approach. Based on standard hardware The Magic Lens Box enables game designers with little technological background to create their own Mixed Reality games in a simple yet powerful fashion. We further outline the development process of the magic Lens Box, describe the conceptual model behind it and discuss three games that have been developed with our system. Evaluation of these games shows the viability of our approach, enabling the creation of a variety of rather different Mixed reality games while keeping the development process simple.

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The magic lens box: simplifying the development of mixed reality games
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Multimedia information systems

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DIMEA '08: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

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DOI:10.1145/1413634

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