Combining Physical and Virtual Gaming Experience

Introduction

Due to the increasing demand of better gaming experience, this project tries to combine physical and virtual gaming experience to provide a better gaming experience to the players.

Physical Gaming Experience

Any physical objects for entertainment, spider-like robot with 6 legs is used in this project.

Virtual Gaming Experience

Gaming with virtual environment provided, Augmented Reality (AR) is used in this project.

Combination

Robot is one of the characters in the game fighting with virtual characters generated by AR. Meanwhile, the game can control the robot to move in the real-world.

Product

An AR mobile game which supports robot controlling will be delivered.

Objective

This project aims to provide an interesting and fresh idea for gaming experience to the game industry.

Trossen Robotics. “PhantomX AX Metal Hexapod Mark III Kit.” Accessed September 28, 2019. link to access

Why?

The development of game industry is saturated causing the gaming experiences are monotonous for either physical or virtual aspect. However, it is difficult to create a brand-new gaming experience out of real-world and virtual world. Therefore, combining physical and virtual is a new try to be believed that a more attractive and interesting new gaming experiences will be provided to the players.

How?

Integrating the strengths and complementing the weakness of physical and virtual gaming experience is the main purpose of combining the two. The movements of robot can provide a realistic vision, while characters generated by AR can provide a fancy feeling. As a result, user interaction between the real-world and the virtual world is increased.

Schedule

Date	Task	Progress
29 September 2019	First deliverables - Detailed project plan - Project website
15 October 2019	Finalized project requirements Game review
1 December 2019	Robot controlling: User interface AR gaming environment: Game design
31 December 2019	Robot controlling: Bluetooth commands for connection and control of movements AR gaming environment: Simple AR elements testing
6 January 2020	Robot controlling: User acceptance testing AR gaming environment: Basic game operations
13-17 January 2020	First presentation
2 February 2020	Second deliverables - Detailed interim report - Preliminary implementation
15 February 2020	Utilization of AR for increasing level of correlation between physical and vir tual environment
29 February 2020	Conversion of robot controlling application into plugin for Unity
30 March 2020	Remaining gaming environment
5 April 2020	Player game testing
12 April 2020	Final adjustment
3 May 2020	Third deliverables - Final report - Finalized tested implementation
4-8 May 2020	Final Presentation

Documentation

Project Plan

Updated On: 29 September 2019

Interim Report

Updated On: 3 February 2020

Final Report

Updated On: 3 May 2020

Meet the Team

Dr. Chim, T.W.

Supervisor

Mr. David Lee