This document provides an overview of Open Sound Control (OSC) as middleware for games accessibility and body movement controlled gaming. It discusses OSC applications and uses, including for virtual DJ software, networking performances, and video jockeying. Examples of OSC controllers are provided, such as the Lemur, Jazz Mutant, and Touch OSC. Demos are described using a Wiimote, video and audio, and an iPhone. OSC is presented as enabling middleware for integrating a variety of input devices, such as Wacom tablets, Wiimotes, balance boards, and human interface devices, with audio, video tracking, and MIDI. Future developments discussed include incorporating OSC gateways into video games and using sensors

1. Open Sound Control as
Middleware for Games
Accessibility and Body-
Movement Controlled
Gaming
Dr Alasdair G Thin BSc, PhD
Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

2. Overview
Emergence of Open Sound Control (OSC)
Sample OSC Applications
OSC Protocol
OSC Controllers & Software
Demos
OSC as Enabling Middleware
Future Developments

3. Electronic Music Pioneers

4. Management Problem - Solution
get directly down Maurits Burgers
Ivo Riemann

5. MIDI (musical instr. digital interface)
Optically Isolated Serial Connection
Notes coded #1-127

6. Open Sound Control (Midi for networks)
Url-style naming scheme
Open-ended
Dynamic
Symbolic
High data resolution
High time resolution
Example: /wii/1/button/home

7. OSC Applications & Uses
VirtualDJ Quintet.net
von boot
VJing

8. Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
Software
Open
Kernel Device Driver Sound
Control
Hardware Abstraction Layer
Hardware Input Devices

9. OSC Controllers
Lemur Jazz Mutant Touch OSC

10. OSC Software/Router 1
junXion

11. OSC Software/Router 2
OSCulator

12. OSC Software/Router 3
GlovePIE

13. Demo 1 - Wiimote

14. Demo 2 - Video & Audio

15. Demo 3 - iPhone

16. OSC as Enabling Middleware
Wacom Tablets Audio
Wiimotes pitch
Wii Balance Board level
Human Interface Devices Midi
(HIDs)
Space Navigator
Video Tracking
Micro-controllers
color
OSC
object
Midi

17. Future Controller Developments
Sensor(s)
Microcontroller + OSC
http://hci.stanford.edu/dtools/arduino.html

18. Future Development
OSC gateway Video Game
incorporated in games Virtualization
www.onlive.com
OSC.py library for
Python
flosc library for Flash

19. Contact
Dr Alasdair G Thin, BSc, PhD
Active Video Game Researcher
a.g.thin@thin.me.uk
www.gamersizescience.org