Entertainment AR Aquarium

Abstract

This paper proposes an entertainment aquarium system using Augmented Reality (AR). In the proposed system, 3-dimensional CG fish are superimposed on the PC screen captured by Web camera. Fish are selected according to the color information in the background image taken by the Web camera. The user can feel a sense of moving real fish. Three kinds of elements for entertainment are introduced: interactivity, communication, and unexpectedness. As for interactivity, the objects displayed in real time are reflected by user's operations using AR. As for communication, users can cooperate to raise fish and can communicate with other users using Twitter. Finally, as for unexpectedness, rainbow appears according to the sound the user utters. We carried out evaluation experiments and obtained good results in terms of the three elements compared with the existing similar application software.