A virtual 3D mobile guide in the INTERMEDIA project

  • Authors:

  • Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;Achille Peternier;Xavier Righetti;Mingyu Lim;George Papagiannakis;Tasos Fragopoulos;Kyriaki Lambropoulou;Paolo Barsocchi;Daniel Thalmann

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Geneva, MIRALab, Geneva, Switzerland;EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;University of Geneva, MIRALab, Geneva, Switzerland;University of Geneva, MIRALab, Geneva, Switzerland;ISI, 26500, Platani Patras, Greece;INTRACOM, 19002, Peania, Attica, Greece;CNR, 00185, Rome, Attica, Italy;EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a European research project, interactive media with personal networked devices (INTERMEDIA) in which we seek to progress beyond home and device-centric convergence toward truly user-centric convergence of multimedia. Our vision is to make the user the multimedia center: the user as the point at which multimedia services and the means for interacting with them converge. This paper proposes the main research goals in providing users with a personalized interface and content independent of physical networked devices, and space and time. As a case study, we describe an indoors, mobile mixed reality guide system: Chloe@University. With a see-through head-mounted display (HMD) connected to a small wearable computing device, Chloe@University provides users with an efficient way to guide someone in a building. A 3D virtual character in front of the user guides him/her to the required destination.