The Art.live Architecture for Mixed Reality

The goal of the art.live project was to develop an architecture and a set of tools, both generic and application dependent, for the enhancement of narrative spaces thanks to the production of a mixed-reality environment: the art.live architecture aimed at creating interactive stories that mix graphical elements with inputs from live cameras. The real impact of the system occurs when some persons are in front of the cameras: they get themselves immersed within the visual ambiance and they are therefore involved within the narrative, which they are able to interact with through their behavior. At the opposite side of the architecture, other persons are looking at screens where the mixed images are rendered and they might also be offered to interact with the system. * The seven following partners constituted the art.live consortium (European project IST-1999-10942) from January 1, 2000 to April 30, 2002: Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Casterman Edition S.A., Bruxelles, Belgium; Associação para o desenvolvimento das telecomunicações e técnicas de informática, Lisboa, Portugal; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland; Fastcom Technology S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland; Association pour le Développement de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche en Systématique Appliquée, Paris, France; Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, France.