SideBySide
Karl D.D. Willis, Ivan Poupyrev, Scott E. Hudson, Moshe Mahler
Disney Research, Pittsburgh
Disney Research, Pittsburgh
SideBySide is a novel interactive system that allows multiple people to play and work together using handheld projectors at anytime and anyplace. The system is immediate and simple: users simply project onto a surface and their projection becomes aware and responsive to other projections nearby. Interaction can range from projector-based games, such as boxing with projected characters, to everyday tasks such as exchanging contact information by 'dragging and dropping' onto another user's projection.
Importantly, SideBySide does not require any fixed sensing in the environment and can be used anywhere: at home, at the office, or even inside the car during long road trips. The system consists of a hybrid mobile projector that outputs both visible and invisible projections at the same time. The invisible projection contains tracking data that can be recognized by the device camera, allowing accurate location tracking of multiple projections and lightweight communication between devices.
Importantly, SideBySide does not require any fixed sensing in the environment and can be used anywhere: at home, at the office, or even inside the car during long road trips. The system consists of a hybrid mobile projector that outputs both visible and invisible projections at the same time. The invisible projection contains tracking data that can be recognized by the device camera, allowing accurate location tracking of multiple projections and lightweight communication between devices.
Research Paper
 | SideBySide: Ad-hoc Multi-user Interaction with Handheld Projectors Best Paper Award, Best Demo Award Willis, K. D.D., Poupyrev, I., Hudson, S. E., and Mahler, M. SideBySide: Ad-hoc Multi-user Interaction with Handheld Projectors. In Proc. ACM UIST (2011). Paper [PDF, 2.2MB] |
Gallery
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 Two-player boxing using the SideBySide system. |  Projecting visible and IR images in a single stream. The characters are visible to the user, and the markers are visible to the IR camera. |
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 The SideBySide concept – a self-contained, full color, handheld projection device allowing multi-user interaction in almost any space. |  The SideBySide system overview. |
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 The SideBySide prototype device. |  The SideBySide projection engine. |
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 Example applications created with the SideBySide system. |
Media Coverage
Contact
The SideBySide project is being developed at Disney Research Pittsburgh and the Computational Design Lab / DevLab, Carnegie Mellon University by Karl D.D. Willis, Ivan Poupyrev, Scott Hudson, and Moshe Mahler.
Email: enquiries [at] motion-beam [dot] com
Email: enquiries [at] motion-beam [dot] com
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