_____________________________________________________________________ Augmented/Virtual Reality Online Forum _____________________________________________________________________ Dear Colleague, The fields of Virtual and Augmented Reality are nowdays exploding. However these fields are still young and no standard methodology and product seems to be recognized yet. As a consequence, the development of applications is slown down because the learning process can only be done through sparses conferences and litterature reading. To enable faster communication between scientists working on the fields of Augmented and Virtual Reality a mailing list has been created: ARforum. ([EMAIL PROTECTED] view subscribtion down this email) Because VR has been around for a long time and the name is very generic, we thought that the list should be mainly axed on AR technology where a lot of challenges are still present. However, VR questions/answers that are directly extensible to the AR field should be absolutely considered. The goal is to avoid to make the discussion list too general, which will make it very fast borrowing. Less try to solve real problem together. The subjects that we would like to touch are for example: -what are suitable hardware components corresponding to a category of applications? -is there a software architecture that is common to any AR/VR applications? -could we push the design of an operating system to be developed to integrate seamlessly AR and VR concepts (3D desktop, input and output VR devices)? -what does mean precise registration? -what is the best components available for building wearable The kind of subjects we would like to avoid would be: -did anybody tried to put a HMD on a horse? -My company sell the best software available for VR ... AR is a very interesting field because it requires multidisciplinary expertise to be achieved correctly. For this reason we would like to have at least all these categories of scientists participating to the discussion: -computer scientists ( software architecture, graphics programming, ...) -electrical engineers ( tracking harwdware, computer architecture, ... ) -optical scientists ( real human viewing model, lens design, ... ) -psychologists ( human studies, human/machine interface, ... ) -mechanical engineers ( mechanical design, tracking systems, ... ) -chemists ( olfactory display? ) ... HOW TO JOIN The list is served by a commercial web site (listbot) which gives us a way to subscribe and unsubscribe automatically and look at the archives. The cons are that email message will be followed by a little commercial message that can be easily ignored. Another advantage is that the email are restricted to 100 Kb which will avoid that people flood the memory of a host user with their mail. Users in need to show large documents will have to make them available through FTP on their web site for now. In the future it will be interesting to create a VR world where we could share such documents and work in collaboration through the web. To join just go to: http://ait.nrl.navy.mil/people/baillot/ARforum/subscribe.htm Email to the members of AR forum at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To consult the archive go to: http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber To set a link to subscribe/unsubscribe from your web site just copy the page in: http://ait.nrl.navy.mil/people/baillot/ARforum/subscribe.htm or take the attached file and copy it in your page Thanks for joining this mailing list and participate to the development of these exciting technologies. Please send any comments/suggestions/corrections to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a good day Yohan ______________________________________________________________________ Yohan BAILLOT Electrical and Computer Engineer Virtual Reality Laboratory, Advanced Information Technology (Code 5580), Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20375-5337 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (202) 404 7801 Home : (703) 566 3684 Cell : (407) 222 6359 Fax : (202) 767 1122 Web : www.ait.nrl.navy.mil/people/baillot _______________________________________________________________________
