I'm very interested in this work ( full disclosure, IBM is one of the sponsors of the work), Moriz, I agree that today's head mounted displays are a bit bulky for widespread use. It is great foundational work, and there are some aspects that we could integrate into Snowglobe that would be useful *today*. One of those is the gesture recognition code. It's towards the end of Tuomas' video. It uses a webcam to detect a user nodding yes/no, and then plays an in world animation based on detecting the gesture.
Merov, once the Snowglobe 2.0 code settles down, can we discuss a way to have a pluggable framework that people could use for things like AR? Might make a good topic for a Hippo meeting. Suzy On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Moriz Gupte <moriz.gu...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is very neat. Still a bit bulky for immediate use but a great > foundation for future. > R > > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Kantonen Tuomas <tuomas.kanto...@vtt.fi>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I've been working on a project using Second Life as a platform to >> develop mixed reality teleconferencing/-collaboration system. A brief >> intro about the project can be found at >> http://www.vtt.fi/multimedia/projects/mrconference.html >> and a video demo of our work so far is at >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNB0_c-5TSk . >> >> The project, continuing also in 2010, is split into two parts: >> overlaying a video image with avatars and virtual objects (augmented >> reality; AR) and using hand and head gestures to control avatars and >> interact with virtual objects (augmented virtuality; AV). >> >> We have agreed to release our work as open source. However, lack of >> continuous "forward porting" would soon render the released code >> unusable. It would therefore be better to have some parts of our >> work incorporated into the Snowglobe sources. >> >> I've tried to keep all our modifications as small as possible. The >> project is separated to our own ACME (Augmented Collaboration in Mixed >> Environments) module, vanilla Snowglobe code and an interface between >> the two. >> >> I'd be ready to invest some time to implement a generic AR/AV support >> for Snowglobe if we could come up with a design that could be accepted >> by the Snowglobe developers. This would allow anyone to use Snowglobe >> as AR/AV research platform, with or without our software. >> >> -- >> - Tuomas Kantonen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > > > > -- > 'Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin.' > Rameshsharma Ramloll PhD Research Assistant Professor Idaho State > University, PocatelloTel: 208-282-5333 > More info at http://tr.im/RRamloll > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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