A virtual 3D mobile guide in the INTERMEDIA project.

Autor: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Achille Peternier, Xavier Righetti, Mingyu Lim, George Papagiannakis, Tasos Fragopoulos, Kyriaki Lambropoulou, Paolo Barsocchi, Daniel Thalmann
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Zdroj: Visual Computer; Jul2008, Vol. 24 Issue 7-9, p827-836, 10p
Abstrakt: Abstract  In this paper, we introduce a European research project, interactive media with personal networked devices (INTERMEDIA) in which we seek to progress beyond home and device-centric convergence toward truly user-centric convergence of multimedia. Our vision is to make the user the multimedia center: the user as the point at which multimedia services and the means for interacting with them converge. This paper proposes the main research goals in providing users with a personalized interface and content independent of physical networked devices, and space and time. As a case study, we describe an indoors, mobile mixed reality guide system: Chloe@University. With a see-through head-mounted display (HMD) connected to a small wearable computing device, Chloe@University provides users with an efficient way to guide someone in a building. A 3D virtual character in front of the user guides him/her to the required destination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index