Immersive Rail Shooter, or IRS reformulates virtual elements of shooter video games and gives to physical objects a tangible interface dimension. Between augmented virtuality and mixed reality, IRS uses the space as playground and engages the player body in an intense rail shooter game.
 

Before beginning, the user has to set action markers and hiding places with personal furniture. It can be a chair, an armchair, an overturned coffee table: whatever wanted. After calibration, the player sits behind one of his hideouts and the game can start. The position of the body will have a direct impact on the avatar that it embodies.
When the player hides, he becomes invisible for his virtual enemies. When he uncovers himself, he can attack but becomes vulnerable to enemy bullets. Following a shooting phase, the game forces the player to change hiding place or to touch one of the markers, in order to get to a new sequence. This gesture constitutes the central playful mechanism of the application: as long as the player doesn’t perform the requested action, the game doesn’t get to the rest of the script.
 

Watch the concept video and the prototype demo video in High Definition on Vimeo.
 

The website was created in collaboration with Edouard Durand.

My proposal is an application which has the same principles as the Plate tectonics. Each plate represents a group of contacts, chosen by the user: family, pro, friends, etc. Rocks represent messages and the source (strong line) represents contacts. The closer the messages are to the source, the newer they are (and inversely).
Plates’ appearance is created with three parameters: the number of contacts, the number of messages and a strength coefficient. This coefficient is given by the user: it’s up to him to give more or less strength to each plate, that is to say more or less strength to group of contacts.
 

Main view is the map where the user can navigate with common multitouch interactions. By zooming, message’s details are progressively appearing (sender, title, date and type). A secondary view allows the user to see deeper in the plate: it corresponds to the archive area where oldest messages are put.
Each time a new message is received, the cellphone is vibrating. It is a volcanic eruption: bright lava appears at the source, creating a new message area, expanding the plate and pushing the other ones. Once the message is read, lava cools down.
If the user suddenly want to reorganize his plates, he can take his cellphone and shake it in order to create an earthquake. Plates, which have the bigger strength coefficient, will go on top of the other ones, creating an absolute new view of the map.

Shooting by me, Julien Bréhier and Goulven Briantais. Editing and post-production by me. Music by Odd Nosdam – « Untitled Sketch » (feat. Jessica Bailiff).
 

Watch the video in High Definition on Vimeo.

Watch the video in High Definition on Vimeo.

Watch the video in High Definition on Vimeo.