Hi Tuomas, First, thanks a lot for joining us here in Snowglobe. I've seen your video when it came out a few months ago and I was hoping to see you chime in here back then :)
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Kantonen Tuomas <tuomas.kanto...@vtt.fi>wrote: > 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. > The whole thing is: which parts? As others mentioned in this thread, we eventually would like to develop a plugin architecture that will make easier for this kind of work to be developed and integrated. We do have such an embryonic API used for media currently. I think we could expand that architecture to integrate things like avatar gesture and puppeteering as you did (something I also do have some experience with and a personal interest in). At the same time, I don't think it's reasonable to wait for the Glorious Future to show up before considering contributions and experimentations like yours (or we'll never get anywhere...). > > 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. > OK, let's start somewhere then. If you already do have code ported to Snowglobe, it's worth setting up a place to post this so we can review and see how best we could integrate that in the current architecture. I encourage you to create a JIRA on the public JIRA and attach a patch to it (I'm expecting a big patch though...). Considering the breath of the feature, you should also create a page on the wiki to store there any documentation. Let me know if you need help for this, I'll be happy to assist you. Cheers, - Merov
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