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
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