CLOUd City

Cloud City investiages the implications of technologies

that will allow for the arbitrary connection of spaces
through portals
Portals vs Screens

• A screen is something like a moni- • A portals is something like a door or a

tor or TV. window.

• A screen is something you look at. • A portals is something you see

• A screen is a 2D object
• A screen belongs to the realm of
computing
through.
• A portal gives way to a 3D space.
• A portal belongs to the realm of archi-
tecture

To turn a screen into a portal, you simply have to

change what's on the screen
according to where it is being viewed from.

This involves Head tracking.

Beginnings
Project based on the desire to pinpoint a 3D position wihtout using disruptive devices.

Bluetooth
• First experiments using other APIs to access remote hardware through Python
bindings

• Wasn’t feasable- strength was not precise enough, greatly affected by obstacles.

Wiimotes
• Superb support under Linux. Easy to interfaces with- Python bindings.

• Built in camera with automatic globbing.

• First system: simply tracked a point in 3D space using data from two Wiimotes.
Headtracking
 An Object

Composed of T34, T36 and T37

Location: [3.15, -2.50, 1.78]

A Trace
Base: Camera 1, direct
ion vector: [0.525, 0.264
, 2.417[

IR Data

(864, 372)

Transmission of object locations Commuication with virtual universe

Transmission of IR Data

Connection
to portal

infrared sensor infrared Camera Sensor Server Display server

 To Display Server

Concepts: The identity of objects is assigned based on object behavior

Objects: Intersections of traces that infer the exsitence of an object

Traces: 3D scene-space vectors

IR Data: 2D coordinates globbed from the IR cam.

Each Wiimote can track four automatically.

From IR Camera
This demo

Infrared points Manual COnstruction

Headtracking Room display

Avatars Projection
Person display Actuation
With a bit more time/$

Facial Recognition sIMPLE 3d Reconstruction

Headtracking Room display

cutouts lcd wallscreens

Person display Actuation
Just around the corner...

Ceiling

Wall Wall
Lamp

Table

Body analysis Complex 3d Reconstruction

Headtracking Room display

3D models OLED Wallscreens

Person display Actuation
 Structure Subframe Biomechanics
from Motion sampling
Computer Vision Research Commercial Product Project Natal
University of Washington 2D3 Microsoft
 Through the portal

When it's possible to arbitrarily choose the adjacencies

of your portals, space becomes location independent.
Because the system can only be used by one person
at a time, portals are best placed in spaces where
people often find themselves alone.
Personal Spaces
Personal Spaces
Incidental Spaces
Incidental Spaces
Space storage

Local Cloud
Space access

private shared public

Space relation - Basic

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S.pace relation - Awesome

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Multiple users