Immersive full-surround multi-user system design

Kuchera-Morin, JoAnn; Wright, Matthew; Wakefield, Graham; Roberts, Charles; Adderton, Dennis; Sajadi, Behzad; Höllerer, Tobias; Majumder, Aditi

doi:10.1016/j.cag.2013.12.004

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“…On the other hand, VR immersive applications are also subdivided into two subcategories, according to the visualization system of the virtual world: (i) the head-mounted display (HMD), which consists of active glasses with a small screen placed properly in front of each eye (Figure 2b) [7,[24][25][26][27]; and (ii) the virtual CAVE (cave automatic virtual environment), where the virtual world is projected on the walls, ceiling, and floor of a room by diverse stereoscopic projectors ( Figure 2). In this last case, the user must wear passive stereo glasses [28,29] to achieve a 3D view of the virtual world. The main disadvantage of the virtual caves is the high cost, which makes the use of this type of immersive VR limited.…”

Section: Background Of Vr Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Design of Virtual Reality Learning Environments in Engineering

Vergara

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Lorenzo

2017

MTI

116

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Currently, the use of virtual reality (VR) is being widely applied in different fields, especially in computer science, engineering, and medicine. Concretely, the engineering applications based on VR cover approximately one half of the total number of VR resources (considering the research works published up to last year, 2016). In this paper, the capabilities of different computational software for designing VR applications in engineering education are discussed. As a result, a general flowchart is proposed as a guide for designing VR resources in any application. It is worth highlighting that, rather than this study being based on the applications used in the engineering field, the obtained results can be easily extrapolated to other knowledge areas without any loss of generality. This way, this paper can serve as a guide for creating a VR application.

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Section: Background Of Vr Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Design of Virtual Reality Learning Environments in Engineering

Vergara

Rubio

Lorenzo

2017

MTI

116

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“…Several other projector-based systems have been implemented for office and work environments, with different degrees of sophistication and different goals, such as the OMNI display [6] (with the goal of improving group awareness) and Kimura [23] (with the goal of supporting office work and office activity). These systems often use multiple projectors concurrently, and use blending techniques to deal with overlaps, or with environments where projection areas are not flat (e.g., [2,16,21,40,39]). …”

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The ASPECTA toolkit

Petford

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Gutwin

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Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays

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Full Coverage Displays (FCDs) cover the interior surface of an entire room with pixels. FCDs make possible many new kinds of immersive display experiences -but current technology for building FCDs is expensive and complex, and software support for developing full-coverage applications is limited. To address these problems, we introduce ASPECTA, a hardware configuration and software toolkit that provide a low-cost and easy-to-use solution for creating full coverage systems. We outline ASPECTA's (minimal) hardware requirements and describe the toolkit's architecture, development API, server implementation, and configuration tool; we also provide a full example of how the toolkit can be used. We performed two evaluations of the toolkit: a case study of a research system built with ASPECTA, and a laboratory study that tested the effectiveness of the API. Our evaluations, as well as multiple examples of ASPECTA in use, show how ASPECTA can simplify configuration and development while still dramatically reducing the cost for creators of applications that take advantage of full-coverage displays.

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“…Projected immersive virtual environments such as the cubic CAVE [12] or the cylindrical and spherical theaters by Jeffrey Shaw [13], JoAnn Kuchera [14], and now many others [15], to which may be added networking and telepresence features, are also candidates. The major differences between these and the proposed paradigm in the Posture Platform (and its incarnation as The Drawing Room) are, first, the replacement of avatars by real-time photorealistic representations of participants and, second, easily replicable devices (bases) that afford reciprocal sensory immersion.…”

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Posture Platform and The Drawing Room: Virtual Teleportation in Cyberspace

2014

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A B S T R A C TThree-hundred-sixty-degree audio/visual immersion and the restoration of non-verbal communication cues are essential features for interfaces inviting the human body in cyberspace. The Posture Platform is a network of bases that offers access to a shared virtual environment. Each base is composed of an immersive 360-degree visual display, a surround-sound system, an array of image capture devices, a microphone, an omnidirectional controller/pointer, and a computer with wifi and an internet connection.The Drawing Room is the most recent virtual space developed for the platform. It invites participants to a blank shared space where they draw their own environment collaboratively. The platform, and the project it hosts, is an example of the art, design, and engineering challenges and opportunities associated with development of inhabitable cyberspace.

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Immersive full-surround multi-user system design

Cited by 26 publications

References 22 publications

On the Design of Virtual Reality Learning Environments in Engineering

On the Design of Virtual Reality Learning Environments in Engineering

The ASPECTA toolkit

Posture Platform and The Drawing Room: Virtual Teleportation in Cyberspace

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