Entertainment and Game Computing
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 5392
Special Issue Editor
Interests: computer game engineering; augmented reality; entertainment computing; computer vision; visual information processing
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Dear Colleagues,
Rapid advances in entertainment and game computing over the past decade have revolutionized our daily lives, making our them more fun. The scope of the research field ‘entertainment and game computing’ is quite broad, and includes many types of computer games, software for digital entertainment, architectures and methodologies for entertainment applications, computer game and software technologies for entertainment, interactive entertainment, and technologies and applications in the emerging areas of augmented reality, mixed reality, and virtual reality.
Recent significant progress in positional tracking technology and the increased availability of various sensing devices accelerates the development of new genres in interactive entertainment applications. Augmented reality games attempt to integrate the players’ real environment into the virtual game environment. In gaming, depth-sensing cameras are already a common 3D interaction interface. They capture the real world around the user in 3D, and provide depth maps in real time. Nowadays, spherical cameras are also widely available and spherical panoramic videos are becoming popular. A single camera gives full field-of-view images which allow interactive entertainment systems to provide a more immersive experience when performing spatial tasks.
Due to the appearance of immersive interfaces such as gesture-based controllers, and new visual sensing interfaces such as spherical cameras or 3D depth cameras, new technologies and applications in games and interactive entertainment are emerging for augmented reality gaming and entertainment applications. This Special Issue focuses on innovative research ideas and state-of-the-art algorithms and applications in the scientific and engineering aspects of entertainment and game computing. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Immersive game technology
- Augmented reality games
- Vision-based interface for gaming and entertainment systems
- 360° spherical video/image analysis
- Structure reconstruction from spherical video/image
- Mixed and augmented reality systems for entertainment
- Entertainment applications with spherical/omnidirectional camera
- Affective computing in games
Prof. Dr. Jong-Seung Park
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Entertainment computing
- Game technologies
- Game software
- Augmented reality
- Mixed reality
- Vision-based interaction
- 360° spherical camera
- Spherical video/image analysis
- Immersive technology
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