Andrew Wilson, one of the researchers who worked on the project, said the system demonstrates a number of important sensing capabilities that exploit the flexibility of computer vision techniques.

Unlike many similar systems, PlayAnywhere’s projector and camera are placed on the side of the tabletop, and the device can sense and project images on a 40” diagonal area at a relatively short distance. PlayAnywhere’s creators said they aimed to create a system capable of sensing a variety of objects and of displaying animated graphics over large display surfaces.

PlayAnywhere was designed using advanced image processing techniques and Microsoft says this compact product addresses installation, calibration, and portability issues that are typical in most vision-based table systems. Hopefully the community will also contribute some libraries that can simplify this even more like Bootstrap and jQuery have done.Microsoft recently introduced “PlayAnywhere” – a front-projected computer vision-based interactive table system, which the company says demonstrates the latest improvements in projection technology. There are enough JavaScript examples online that I think non-programmers will have an easier time leveraging this as a scripting language. Other platforms use LUA, but I found this language a bit unapproachable as a non-programmer. I feel that this approach has some significant long-term benefits. Second, the modding approach of TTP is innovative and leverages JavaScript as a scripting language. More competition will encourage more development, I think. So what drew me to Tabletop Playground (TTP)? Well, first and foremost I wanted to encourage development in this space as the tools we have today are good, but not great.

I have created a variety of tabletop games over the years on a variety of platforms including Vassal and Tabletop Simulator. The PDF version of the guide can be downloaded from here: While I do appreciate WIKI’s, blogs, and knowledgebases, sometimes have a written document (or PDF version) to reference while working on something can be very useful.

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