Augmented Coliseum

Are you a fan of the battle robots ? Now you have more reasons to rejoice. Inami Laboratory has built a cute application which uses augmented reality to produce awesome effects when the robots battle with each other.

Two robots battle with each other on a planar surface. A virtual battleground is projected onto the plane which might contain ditches, hills and (anything which your imagination permits). The robots can also fire virtual laser blasters onto each other. The blazing fire effects are shown in a cute way.



The demo uses a novel projector based tracking system - "The main novelty of PTS is that we no longer need cameras for tracking receiver. Instead, the receiver’s path can be recognized through projection from any ordinary display. This is achieved by resting a PTS receiver on top of the subject, where a projector will discharge spot-image to the subject and the receiver will pick up necessary data to be evaluated by an internal algorithm to keep track of the receiver. This novel tracking system can also be implemented in multiple vehicle tracking and control. "

Learn from the horse's mouth and also download a cute video : Maki Sugimoto and Dr. Masahiko Inami