Midyear Review

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Midyear Review

• Steven Drucker
• Microsoft Research

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The Next Media Research Group

• Creating novel experiences for interacting with
  media.

Steven M. Drucker Lead Researcher Next Media
Research Group
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Generalized List Control

• DEMO

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Generalized List Widget
Joint work with Kentaro Toyama

• Parameters
• 1D parameterized manifold in 3D
• notch point
• closed vs. open path
• inter-item spacing
• may be per item

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Generalized List Control
Item Orientation
3 degrees of freedom for orientation. Can be
specified manually or automatically in
relationship to points, axes, planes, and/or
path. Some options for item orientation
Fixed
Tangent to Path
Facing Viewer
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Spectator (original concept video)
Web community based on Spectator enabled games

• Voice / video chat is available through
  broadband connections. People would enjoy being
  able to go to any network based game to observe
  the action, meet friends in that space and chat.
• We explored several implementations including
  video and game engine based approaches.

VIDEO
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Spectator (automated game cameras)
Realtime in-game cinematic camera control

• The first steps in realizing the bigger picture
  of Spectator was to develop in-game automated
  camera controls. Using the MechWarrior 4 codebase
  we implemented automated cameras with
  cinematography logic to create an exciting real
  time presentation of the action for an audience
  of non-gaming spectators. The result is a
  compelling view of live gaming that provides the
  foundation to further explore the deeper
  community experience possibilities for Spectator.

VIDEO
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Questions?

• Steven Drucker
• sdrucker_at_microsoft.com