COLTRAN Studios

Living Table: First Steps Physical play. Digital possibility. Living Table is a mixed-reality tabletop experience for Meta Quest that brings intelligent interaction into the space where people already play. Its starting point is a real chessboard: familiar pieces, physical movement, and decisions made with your own hands. First Steps explores how computer vision, spatial interaction and game-state-aware AI can make that board more responsive. The intended experience is simple: understand the position, consider a move, act on the real board, and receive guidance tied to what actually happened. Learning and discovery become part of playing, without pulling the player away from the table. The prototype focuses on a difficult challenge: connecting physical observations to a reliable digital game state. Recognition, uncertainty and recovery are central to that work. An intelligent companion should know when it needs clarification, and its guidance should be grounded in the rules and the player’s actions. Chess is the first step toward a larger vision: persistent tabletop experiences that connect physical objects, digital worlds and intelligent companions. Living Table aims to make that connection feel natural, useful and, above all, fun.