A Real Aquarium Net Catches AR Jellyfish Floating Around the Room
Neon - Net
Shivani Deshpande's Neon-Net is a mixed-reality game played by swinging a real aquarium fish net at AR jellyfish seen through Snap Spectacles. An Arduino UNO Q, IMU and vibration motor are mounted on the handle, where the system samples the net's motion and predicts the swing to decide whether a catch lands.
The jellyfish react to the player: approaching can make them flee, successful streaks can spook the shoal, and harder swings reach farther while disturbing more nearby creatures. Instead of leaving the interaction entirely in augmented reality, the project insists that virtual jelly-fishing should still involve holding an actual net.
AR could have made the whole game hand-tracked and prop-free, but jelly-fishing apparently still demands a real fish net. The digital world is doing the work to preserve the physical joke.