DuckHuntIMAX

IMAX stands for Interactive, Multi-media (virtual and physical), Augmentation (with robot) and eXtreme!!

We want to make mobile gaming more outdoorsy and engage everybody to be more active with their mobile device! Introduce the most revolutionary robot-human interactive gaming system ever, the Duck Hunt IMAX. For people in our 20s, we are often very nostalgic about the classic Nintendo Duck Hunt Game. Even though it is a great adoption and interesting simulation of the real world hunting activity, the unique excitation of the physical activity cannot be captured. With the advance of new technologies in robotics, mobile, cloud and computer vision, here we took the classic duck hunt game idea even further and pushed the boundary of traditional mobile gaming. With this software and hardware hack, we aim to promote the future of gaming where cyber-physical interaction plays a prominent role, enabled by the synergy of the computing technology, the immerging robotic technology, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Here for our system, the ‘duck’ is a robotic flapping ornithopter (the duck robot) which is radio-controlled locally and cloud-controlled through cloud service (i.e., a device of internet of things). The prototyped gaming app adopts onboard computer vision algorithms to track the flying duck robot. Once the ‘duck’ is aimed, the user ‘shoots’ the target with a touch on the screen. If the shot is on target, the app will send a HTTP request to the cloud server and then web server agent will message the Electric-imp end hardware to command the robot wirelessly to drop and fall. This control of ‘kill’ is through cloud service, thus not limited by range.