Virtual Imaging Peripheral for Enhanced Reality Aaron Garrett, Brendon McCool, Justin Huffaker, Ryan Hannah

Project Overview Our project, code named Virtual Imaging Peripheral for Enhanced Reality or VIPER, is an augmented/virtual reality system. It will track a handheld unit’s location and perspective and use this information to find the location of a camera position in a virtual environment. Through a LCD screen on the handheld unit the user will see the virtual environment at the cameras location as if the handheld unit was a window into the virtual world. As the user moves the handheld unit around a table top sized environment the handheld unit’s actual and virtual perspective changes, allowing for different viewing angles of the virtual space.

Project-Specific Success Criteria An ability to communicate time stamp data using RF between the base unit and handheld unit. An ability to display images to the LCD display. An ability to estimate the angle and position of the handheld unit with respect to an origin point using accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, visual data, and ultrasonic data. An ability to find angle displacement of the handheld unit’s front face relative to the IR beacon origin using mounted camera. An ability to find distance from base to handheld unit using ultrasonic emitter and receiver.

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWlne--R7Qc