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+-   AR Facade Moves Beyond the Lab-> on Friday November 09 2007, @02:10PM Renata

Submitted by Renata on Friday November 09 2007, @02:10PM
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Renata writes "Researchers from Georgia Tech's GVU Center have installed AR Façade at the Grand Auto Text exhibition at the Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine, CA. The AR Façade installation presents an augmented reality version of desktop-based game Façade.

The exhibit marks the first time this elaborate "augmented reality" interactive drama has been seen outside the GVU lab.

AR Façade Experience
The AR Façade immersive drama presents the virtual characters of Façade inside a real, physical apartment. Players play the role of an old friend invited over for drinks at a make-or-break moment in the collapsing marriage of the reactive characters, Grace and Trip. While some players attempt to pacify the characters, others break the ice with comic relief, performing for friends who can observe the unfolding drama from outside the exhibit. The uneasy social situation becomes all too real as players are able to move freely throughout a physical apartment and use gestures and speech to interact with the autonomous characters who appear graphically imposed in the space using a video-mix head-mounted AR display.

The three month long exhibition will be open to public until December 15th.

AR Façade
An augmented reality adaptation of Façade
Steven Dow, Blair MacIntyre, Michael Mateas, Manish Mehta
Original game design and AI: Michael Mateas & Andrew Stern
www.gvu.gatech.edu/arfacade"
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