2. Justin Gold Patrick Lupiani

3. The Goal  Enhance the experience of traditional tabletop gaming over long distance Make it as ‘natural’ feeling as possible High levels of social Interaction More than just a virtual version of a board game Fun!

4. The Table  Based on the design of a collaborative product with MITRE  Multi-touch and gestural interface  Real and virtual objects  Networking  Telepresence

5. The Vision  Extend the table to include Interactable gaming widgets ○ Dice, spinners, etc. Structured interactions AI based gaming

6. The Competition  Microsoft Surface  E-Whiteboards  Tablet Computers

7. We can do that plus…  Object scanning  Cheaper than most other solutions  Gestural tracking with Kinect includes height data  Did we mention the object scanning

8. Implementation  Libfreenect .NET/C#  Extensive use of computer vision  Finger/Hand Tracking  Intended to be ported to the SDK

9. Bumps in the road  Base table took longer to implement  Kinect resolution issues  Limited hand tracking capabilities No built in skeletons for hands  Kinect is a resource hog  Calibration to back projection  Top Projection very light sensitive

10. If we knew then what we know now  Program structure  Kinect Issues Depth limitations Relative immaturity of the drivers  Wait for SDK

11. Where could it go…  Library of playable games  Build-a-game framework  More complex gaming structure Tabletop RPG games Tabletop war games Cards

12. On with the show…  Demonstration of table