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ENCOMPASS is a mixed reality smart home system that allows multiple users to interact with their smart homes more naturally and intuitively.

In the future, with the development of lightweight MR devices, Encompass can enable users to operate smart TV, control the lights or set up automation scenes in the house by simply using different household objects within reach or through users' daily habits.

CURRENT
SMART HOME

Nowadays people control their smart home devices through the phone screen, voice and controller. However, due to intuitive mapping of the controller and the device, the experience could be nightmare.

DEMO

MR Smart Home System Unity prototype

Design the features

Multi-affordance

The lightweight MR devices enable unlimited controlling affordances on generic everyday objects, allowing users to control their homes without the hassle of finding dedicated controllers.

The control overlays provided by the MR devices can even adapt to what the user holds, providing the users with maximum comfort and natural gesture controls.

Posture-based Automation

Thanks to the tracking nature of MR devices, the system can unlock more intuitive automation by tracking and learning from users' daily habits and postures, further reducing the steps of reaching the home settings that fit the users’ needs.

Configuration & Customization

Even with the existence of light weighted MR devices, the mobile phone will still not be easily replaced in the future. In our system, the user will be able to have the ability to set up the automation both through portable devices from a third-person view, and postures from a first-person view.

MuLti-user

Invite your friends as an avatar into your room, synchronize the media content and environment with your friends and enjoy movies together.

INSIGHTS
TO THE FUTURE

In the future, the light weight XR devices could replace smart phones, and become the entrance for the internet.

what if....

Revolutionizes smart home interaction, allow users to control their smart home using objects in room and daily habits with lightweight mixed reality devices.

ENCOMPASS