Project goal at this point

"How can physical artifacts and gestures create meaningful and playful physical/digital experiences?"

In order to fully comprehend the tools at my disposal, I have to first understand the ways that the physical can be interfaced with the digital, and vice-versa.

Physical to digital:

• tracking the properties of a physical object via computer vision (e.g. AR)
• tracking the state of a physical input device (e.g. buttons)

Digital to physical:

• visual/audio/haptic illusions of the physical (e.g. bounciness)

These two weeks, I have been working on:

• using an IR camera to track, so as to
• overlay a projected image over it, because
• tracking tangible objects, so as to
• merging the virtual and the real

My experiments are here. I have been working in Openframeworks.

ofxBox2D (Box2D) physics library

I have been reading and experimenting on this well-established library to understand virtual physics, and how to attach colliders to detected real world objects.