About:

Internal R&D looking into/working on Lens Studio and it’s game capabilities. Small chess project that only has basics such as: Plane detection for board placement/movement, AR hand position and gesture tracking to pick up and move chess pieces and occlusion to properly see which piece you are grabbing.

Contribution:

• Using JavaScript in Lens Studio developed:

  • Pinch detection on chess pieces

    • Gesture detection

    • Hand position tracking to pick up object/chess piece

  • Raycast shadow to aim placement of chess piece

  • Grid based system for chess board pieces to sit on

    • Pieces will snap to center of grid/respective square the piece is dropped on

  • Plane detection to place and move chess board

    • Moved on device using touch screen and clicking at point on plane