Open Sound Control as Middleware for Games Accessibility and Body-movement Controlled Gaming

Open Sound Control as Middleware for Games Accessibility and Body- Movement Controlled Gaming Dr Alasdair G Thin BSc, PhD Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Overview Emergence of Open Sound Control (OSC) Sample OSC Applications OSC Protocol OSC Controllers & Software Demos OSC as Enabling Middleware Future Developments

Electronic Music Pioneers

Management Problem - Solution get directly down Maurits Burgers Ivo Riemann

MIDI (musical instr. digital interface) Optically Isolated Serial Connection Notes coded #1-127

Open Sound Control (Midi for networks) Url-style naming scheme Open-ended Dynamic Symbolic High data resolution High time resolution Example: /wii/1/button/home

OSC Applications & Uses VirtualDJ Quintet.net von boot VJing

Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) Software Open Kernel Device Driver Sound Control Hardware Abstraction Layer Hardware Input Devices

OSC Controllers Lemur Jazz Mutant Touch OSC

OSC Software/Router 1 junXion

OSC Software/Router 2 OSCulator

OSC Software/Router 3 GlovePIE

Demo 1 - Wiimote

Demo 2 - Video & Audio

Demo 3 - iPhone

OSC as Enabling Middleware Wacom Tablets Audio Wiimotes pitch Wii Balance Board level Human Interface Devices Midi (HIDs) Space Navigator Video Tracking Micro-controllers color OSC object Midi

Future Controller Developments Sensor(s) Microcontroller + OSC http://hci.stanford.edu/dtools/arduino.html

Future Development OSC gateway Video Game incorporated in games Virtualization www.onlive.com OSC.py library for Python ﬂosc library for Flash

Contact Dr Alasdair G Thin, BSc, PhD Active Video Game Researcher a.g.thin@thin.me.uk www.gamersizescience.org

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Open Sound Control as Middleware for Games Accessibility and Body-movement Controlled Gaming

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