Title :
A combined immersive and desktop authoring tool for virtual environments
Author :
Holm, Roland ; Stauder, Erwin ; Wagner, Roland ; Priglinger, Markus ; Volkert, Jens
Author_Institution :
FAW, Johannes Kepler Univ., Linz, Austria
Abstract :
While frameworks and application programming interfaces for virtual reality are commonplace today, designing scenarios for virtual environments still remains a tedious and time consuming task. We present a new authoring tool which combines scene assembly and visual programming in a desktop application with instant testing, tuning and planning in an immersive virtual environment. Two authors can work together, one with the desktop authoring application and the other in the immersive VR-simulation, to build a complete scenario
Keywords :
application program interfaces; authoring systems; user interfaces; virtual reality; visual programming; application programming interfaces; authoring tool; desktop application; desktop authoring tool; immersive virtual environment; planning; scene assembly; testing; time consuming; user interfaces; virtual reality; visual programming; Assembly systems; Computational modeling; Hazards; Humans; Layout; Railway safety; Testing; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Windows;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Reality, 2002. Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1492-8
DOI :
10.1109/VR.2002.996511
