Linking between real and virtual spaces: building the mixed reality stage environment
Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauß · 2001
This paper is concerned with the concept of a Mixed Reality (MR) stage environment as networked layering of physical space and virtual environments. The MR stage enables multiple performers to interact through intuitive free body interfaces. The goal is the creation of interface environments which allow participants to communicate in shared and remote physical spaces through their natural senses: hearing, seeing, spealdng, gesturing, touching and moving around. Connecting the concept of the stage with the idea of digital information space comprises investigation in digital storytelling and the design of non-linear structures. What we get is an instrument for the human body. What we see is actual movement of performers integrating virtual sound and images in real time onto the MR stage. The Mixed Reality stage The term Mixed Reality is commonly used to refer to environments which combine real and virtual objects with visual representation of real and virtual space. [MilKis94] The underlying paradigm is that of an information space merging components of physical and digital information. The metaphor we use for the MR stage is that of a room furnished or filled with data. [Stra&F199]