There were a few parties interested in the on-line VideoCube idea. I am not quite there as far as having the demo but I was wondering if we might not take a first step at an on-line video forum organized as a room. It would be nice to have some talented collaborators here.
I initially developed the prototype for the "Ever forthcoming book on Java Media programming", also known as the EFB for SAMS. Anyway, the scientific interest of the "videocubes organized around a room" all comes from a solid bunch of findings on memory for events in their spatial context. I think this is an area of research with clear commercial implications not to mention that it is just plain cool. Two years ago, I had developed a little room that a monkey and human could navigate. I am hoping to use this thing to do brain imaging experiments where two or more people interact on-line I am also interested in having subjects drive robots using video feedback as a way to organized massive amounts of information. A lot of that stuff is pie in the sky so I was wondering if we could share code for this. Who knows we might even make some money. Anyway, what we are doing is not magic by any means. It all happens in the process() method where we get the video buffer- the video buffer just happens to be an RTP stream. There are a number of track control tricks and data swapping. The only difference is that I implement video renderer in a class that extends Texture2D. This may not make an difference but I am checking. We have an iVisit fanatic here in the lab. I would say that the performance is comparable except that we have 3D and they are flat screens. Remember though-we have big time bandwidth in our lab and we were pushing all the data locally over our network, so a comparison with iVisit is not yet appropriate. Nevertheless, the 3D does not appear to cause any delays. Today I am trying to go all the way to the lab next door-- It seems if we teamed up we could have a video conference next week or so. To organize this I need to know How many people want to participate. How to access their rtp streams. Setup some times to try it. Also. If you are writing code, please include your general strategy, if it differs from the above. Also, is anyone looking at a LOD Behavior to turn off sources that are out of view? Thanks- Alex =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
