Experience of a Hybrid Information Space between an Outdoor Field and an Immersive Virtual World

Abstract

This paper proposes the concept of the hybrid information space that integrates the information seamlessly between the real world and the virtual world, and the prototype system was developed in which the immersive virtual world was constructed from the photograph images that were taken in the outdoor field. In this system, the user can go and come between the real world and the virtual world by using his own cellular phone as an interface device. This system was applied to relive travel experiences.