Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Computer scientists develop ubiquitous video application for 3D environments

This development may foster new and interesting user experiences ...

"Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have taken the wraps off a new technique for mixing images and video feeds from mobile cameras in the field to provide remote viewers with a virtual window into a physical environment. Dubbed 'RealityFlythrough,' the application constructs a 3D virtual environment dynamically out of the live video streams.

"Instead of watching all the feeds simultaneously on a bank of monitors, the viewer can navigate an integrated, interactive environment as if it were a video game," said UCSD computer science and engineering professor Bill Griswold, who is working on the project with Ph.D. candidate Neil McCurdy. "RealityFlythrough creates the illusion of complete live camera coverage in a physical space. It's a new form of situational awareness, and we designed a system that can work in unforgiving environments with intermittent network connectivity.""   continued ...   (Via PhysOrg)

Reality Flythrough - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

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