levelHead: A 3D Spatial Memory Game
Filed in Gadgets on Dec.15, 2009
Demo video of new conceptual game ‘levelHead’ by Julian Oliver. This is an actual game-prototype using techniques and tools from a well-known branch of computer vision called Augmented Reality. Using tilt motions, the player moves a character through rooms that appear inside one of several cubes on a table. Each room is logically connected by a series of doors, though some doors lead nowhere (they are traps). The player has 2 minutes to find the exit of each cube, leading the character into …
December 15th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Aug reality is one of the newest innovations in the electronics industry and…. …AR is amazing!
December 15th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
In fact it is not as possible as you think.
Whether using mini projector or LCD screen, each side of the cube would require a camera to calculate the viewing angle of the player’s face. Without this there’d be no sense of depth: Each room would appear ‘flat’ relative to the viewer. Inside the 5x5x5cm cube there’d need to be a small computer to pass the relative angular pose back to the computer to which the projector is attached.
It’d be awkward and expensive. AR is simpler and more robust.
December 15th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
WTF are you talking about? Are you trying to explain that you watch the game on the PC & not the actual cube? Oh & MIT just fixed that too btw. You actually could watch it on the cube itself using a mini projector & maybe little colored dots in the cubes corners to for angle tracking.
December 15th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
looks fun. It’s like an AR version of Echochrome. The difficulty would only be limited by the imagination too. You could just keep expanding your number of cubes and markers making the game ongoing. I see why “invisible” markers would be a plus though. Otherwise you could cheat by recreating the markers on paper taking the whole spacial thinking out of the game. the rotation of a cube is the hard part.
December 15th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I know
check my post above it 
December 15th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
it´s real
December 15th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
NICE!
and for windows xp?
December 15th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
ow.. me and my stupid head didn’t read. Its Augmented Reality
December 15th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
would be awesome
tobad its fake
December 15th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Thats incredible! Looks really cool.
December 15th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
It looks like very nice game…. Is it posible to play it on windows XP?
December 15th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Fox example?
December 15th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Acutally, you can see the small markers on the cube. THey are trying to make a semi invisible ink that will be within the threshold of digital cameras but not within the threshhold of human optics. It would most likely be an off white that eould only be able to be differentiated by the program itself.
December 15th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Well yes and no. This is compiled to run on a linux machine to unless you have linux and have a relatively fast computer than you will not be able to download this. This technology is actually quite simple when you think about, it is just the webcam view that makes it seem so confusing. Lets say the machine room is designated D1. When you have the cube facing the camera with the image associated with D1, it imposes the image onto the cube.
December 15th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Cool! Nice game.
December 15th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
to prove this look at the description “the cube itself appears entirely white to the naked eye.” so you would have to use a camera to see it.
December 15th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Im pretty sure it works like this, you buy a pentanted cube and download the software onyour computer. using a webcam you see the rooms on the little cube . so you look at your computer to see the game in the cube.
December 15th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
nice…..I wanna play with that
December 15th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
That is simply amazing!
December 15th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
u sux. there is a lotz of similar devices.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
sensationell!!!
December 15th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
It’s not fake. Pattern recognition is all over the place these days. If you’re into synths at all, or experimental audio, check out the Reactable.
December 15th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
wow that’s awesome.
I would even pay for this game! ;P
December 16th, 2009 at 12:30 am
Lol… quite simple technology… the only trick is that you see the motion picture on the projection as a mirror image and not on the actual cube….
December 16th, 2009 at 12:57 am
dude even if it is ‘fake’ take it for its conceptual value, the idea is really good.