Rui Xie
Software Development
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Augmon – An Augmented Reality Board Game System
Augmented Reality (AR) offers an This project introduces a groundbreaking
digital information, thereby providing a allows multiple players to reach into the
innovative technology that includes
composite view to the user in real-time.
AR technology allows gamers to scan
the physical world with an augmented
experience by providing digital
information.
However, the majority of AR apps in
the market nowadays require players
to hold a handheld device—either a
smartphone or a tablet—which is not
necessarily comfortable, especially for a
long period of time. In my thesis project,
my goal was to explore an alternative
way to bring players a more immersive
and comfortable gameplay experience
between physical and digital worlds.
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
way of playing tabletop board games. It
simulation world using physical pieces so
that everyone sees and touches the same
thing. I built the system with a projector,
an Intel RealSense camera connected
to my personal C++ engine, and LEGO
bricks as gameplay pieces. The end
product comes along with an asymmetric
tabletop strategy game called Escape.