PicoPet: “Real-World” Digital Pet on a Handheld Projector

  • Yuhang Zhao, Chao Xue, Xiang Cao, and Yuanchun Shi

Digital pets (aka Tamagotchi) have been an extremely popular mobile toy. However they are completely separated from the player’s real world experience. We create a digital pet that is projected into everyday physical world using a mobile handheld mini-projector. Using a camera and an orientation sensor, the digital pen senses the physical environment and objects it is projected onto, and behaves accordingly. Take your pet to a real grass field to play, a real swimming pool to swim, or feed it with a real apple! The game now becomes part of your life.

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