The Arena: An lndoor Mixed Reality Space

Abstract

ln this paper we introduce the Arena, an indoor space for mobile mixed reality interaction. The Arena, includes a new user tracking system appropriate for ARJMR applications anda new Too/kit oriented to the augmented and mixed reality applications developer, the MX Too/kit. This too/kit is defined at a somewhat higher abstraction levei, by hiding from the programmer low levei implementation details and facilitating ARJMR objectoriented programming. The system handles in a uniform way, video input, video output (for head-sefs and monitors), sound aurelisation and Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction in ARJMR, including, tangible interfaces, speech recognition and gesture recognition.