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
