Hello, TrackD is a software package that is used to gather information from various tracking devices and lets applications access that data. See:
http://www.vrco.com/products/trackd/trackd.html I will send the source code to your email only (not the lists). Mojtaba Silv�re Martin-Michiellot wrote: > > At 13:46 19/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >Hello, > > We recently got our Java3D applications to work on SGI InfiniteReality3 > >system and I just thought it may be useful for others to know some of > >the things we had to do. > > 1-Attach head view in Java3D to tracker position in CAVE: this involves > >writing the JNI interface to TrackD, writing an InputDevice > >implementation and giving it to the PhysicalEnvironment as a Sensor and > >declaring it as a head sensor (ask if you need to see the Java or C > >code). This allowed Java3D to draw the correct perspective depending on > >where the user's head is in the CAVE. > > What is trackD ? could you send me the source code of the > InputDevice/driver you are talking about ? > > > 2-Setting view parameters: screen width and height, screen's > >TrackBasetoImagePlate, windoweyepoint policy, enabling tracking in View > >as well as other miscl. things such as stereo and front clip distance > >and policy (ask if you want numbers particular to our system). > > 3- working out the small details! A small detail that gave us some > >problems was matching screen resolution to the actual screen used (for > >example we had 3 screens but we wanted to display on only one screen not > >knowing that Java3D draws for the entire screen space). Another small > >thing to get the stereo working properly is to include > >-Dj3d.stereo=PREFERRED which wasn't necessary for us on the PC. > > The system isn't perfect but is impressive given the amount of effort > >it took to go from PC to ONYX machines. Using Java3D was a huge > >advantage with regards to this. We'll be incorporating the Wand soon and > >I will send out an email when we do. > > > > Mojtaba Hosseini > > > >=========================================================================== > >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". > > __________________________________________________________________________________________ > > Silvere Martin-Michiellot builds the Internet future on > www.digitalbiosphere.com > __________________________________________________________________________________________ > > =========================================================================== > 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". =========================================================================== 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".
