Kopin involved with Holoplex and Sony on games...
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by: kopnfan 1952 of 1958
holoplex.com the News
>Optical gesture recognition system puts sweat
on the brow of video game players
Developers at Holoplex Corp. (Pasadena, CA) and Sony Corp.
(Tokyo, Japan) have developed an optical processing system
that recognizes gestures and reproduces them in a
video-game playstation—players act out movements similar
to those conventionally input by the game joystick.
Demonstrated at SigGraph'97 (Los Angeles, CA) in August,
the system converts gestures— punches, kicks, squats,
jumps, and moving forward and backward—into the
equivalent movements of a character in the fighting game
“Battle Arena Tohshinden” on a Sony computer
Entertainment Playstation.
A broadside video camera records player motion, and each
video snapshot of the motion is displayed on a
Kopin(Taunton, MA) CyberDisplay 0.24-in.-diagonal
transmissive active-matrix liquid-crystal display—one for
each player. a 690-nm, 20-mW diode laser projects that
image onto a holographic optical element: the diffracted laser
light is then detected by an array of detectors. The intensities
that each detector receives are processed by a 266-MHz
Pentium computer that determines which of the
preprogrammed gestures was used, if any, at 30 frames per
second and tells the playstation how to move the character.
The companies are working with several video-game
designers and vendors and are hoping to install the optical
processing video-game system in entertainment centers,
amusement parks, and arcades.< |
