A synthetic environment system for planning, education and data visualization

Author

Sadowsky, John ; Weintraub, David M. ; Feldberg, Ian E. ; Diamond, Steven D.

Author_Institution

Appl. Phys. Lab., Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

31 Oct-2 Nov 1994

Firstpage

1367

Abstract

An inexpensive workstation that creates an immersive environment for several people to see and manipulate computer generated 3D graphic objects would have many innovative and important applications, such as planning and brainstorming (3D viewgraphs), education (3D chalk-board), and data visualization. We have been developing a PC-based system with a multimedia architecture. Each participant uses a head-mounted display with a video camera at each eye, and mixes the live video with computer generated graphics to create a heads-up display of the common scene with added virtual objects. We present the architecture, design problems and solutions, and application experiences

Keywords

data visualisation; educational aids; educational computing; educational technology; groupware; microcomputer applications; multimedia computing; multimedia systems; planning; television applications; video cameras; virtual reality; workstations; 3D chalk-board; 3D viewgraphs; PC-based system; brainstorming; computer generated 3D graphic objects; computer generated graphics; data visualization; design problems; design solutions; education; head-mounted display; heads-up display; live video; multimedia architecture; planning; synthetic environment system; video camera; virtual objects; workstation; Application software; Cameras; Computer architecture; Computer displays; Computer graphics; Computer science education; Data visualization; Multimedia systems; Two dimensional displays; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 1994. 1994 Conference Record of the Twenty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6405-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.1994.471681

Filename

471681