An experience combining nostalgia and cutting-edge technology has arrived in Mexico. During these months, those developing Chespirito’s creations will be able to visit and interact in the Chavo del 8 neighborhood thanks to AR technology.
The experience, born under the name La Vecindad del Chavo Depot, is the Mexican entertainment franchise’s latest bet to stay current, combining a range of cartoons, video games, avatars and skins for popular video games, just to mention one. something for..
Betting on paper sounds easy. A set set in CDMX’s Pepsi Center allows Chavo’s followers to explore a 3D version of Chavo’s neighborhood in iconic locations (such as Don Ramon’s or Donna Florinda’s home) of Chaplin Colorado’s «Chiquitolina» lost Get pills. ,
It is an immersive experience that resides in a physical environment, i.e. it combines physical and digital elements to create an interactive setting.
According to Demiurgo, one of the companies behind the development of this experience, the technology used at La Vecindad del Chavo Depot is unique in the world, as it is considered an advance in multi-user AR.
In other words, this technology allows up to 20 people to interact simultaneously with each other, with the environment, and in the same space.
El Chavo del 8 in AR, what’s behind it?
Thus we can open doors, pick up objects and interact with other people as well as with some virtual characters using certain controls and AR glasses.
At Unocero we wanted to fully understand the technology behind this experience, so we spoke to Sergio Rivera Ramirez, partner at Demiurgo, to find the answer.
Unocero: We’re talking about a unique technology in the world, why?
“Since we have applied the combination of commercial technology with another patent, i.e., on the one hand we incorporate the most advanced virtual reality glasses on the market such as HTC Focus 3 which offers great quality, comfort and ergonomics and on the other hand the , a tracking solution that allows us to create and manage large-scale VR rooms composed of software for managing dport, users and devices, and the absolute positioning of devices indoors regardless of the number of people at once The technology, size and shape of physical space, from which we derive our Phygital model that enables users to interact between physical, virtual and digital objects in a simultaneous high-fidelity multi-user space with in-person and 1:1 Allows interaction with absolute accuracy and freedom. Speed.”
Unocero: the first multi-user AR technology, in detail and technically, how is it achieved?
« It is a combination of VR (Virtual Reality) technology with tracking technology, which allows us to generate large-scale LBVR format (real neighborhood scale), multi-user (determined by the size of the range of users with this format) allows. physical space, since this technological combination gives us the possibility of no boundaries (in case of neighborhood of Chavo deport we have 20 users simultaneously) and free movement of users through space, interaction between users, also of space allows. , and objects. In other words, the possibility of achieving user scalability is given by tracking technology combined with virtual reality. It is an inside-outside system where users are tracked by panels and lens sensors installed on the ceiling of the space, which provide us with the absolute position of the equipment».
Unocero: What types of sensors and platforms are used to bring this technology to life?
“Sensors (tiles) are used that go on the ceiling and which communicate with the lens and communication is established between them to position the equipment and therefore the users, who are represented by the avatar.”
Unocero: What other applications could this technology have other than entertainment?
«Technical and vocational education and training (in practically any field); simulation (of processes, events); for digital twins (plants, dams, nuclear plants, production lines, etc.) and any industry in general”
