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This paper presents an interactive entertainment experience deployed in a configurable surround projection environment that we called the media theater. This immersive installation is based on a real-time space simulator displaying several asteroid belts with large amounts of objects orbiting a sun. The sun acts as a dynamic center of gravitation that can be controlled by users with the help of a tracking system. Furthermore, it allows users to experiment with gravity in order to see how their interaction manipulates all objects in space.
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Köster, M., Schmitz, M., Zehle, S., Detzler, B. (2015). Asterodrome: Force-of-Gravity Simulations in an Interactive Media Theater. In: Chorianopoulos, K., Divitini, M., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Jaccheri, L., Malaka, R. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2015. ICEC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9353. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24589-8_27
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