DigiScope: An Invisible Worlds Window

This video presents how a see-through based visual perception system for “invisible worlds” to support interactive theatre experience in mixed reality spaces, which is called DigiScope, and how the perception of smart appliance services can be supported via novel interactive visual experiences.

Abstract

Smart appliances, i.e. wirelessly networked mobile information devices have started to populate the “real world ” with “hidden ” or “invisible ” services, thus building up an “invisible world ” of services associated with real world objects. With the embedding of invisible technology into everyday things, however, also the intuitive perception of “invisible services ” disappears. In this video we present how we can support the perception of smart appliance services via novel interactive visual experiences. We have developed and built a see-through based visual perception system for “invisible worlds ” to support interactive theatre experience in mixed reality spaces, which we call DigiScope. In the video we shown how e.g. the “invisible services ” of our SmartCase, an Internet enabled suitcase, can be visualized via graphical hyperlink annotations