IMPROVE: collaborative design review in mobile mixed reality

  • Authors:
  • Pedro Santos;André Stork;Thomas Gierlinger;Alain Pagani;Bruno Araújo;Ricardo Jota;Luis Bruno;Joaquim Jorge;Joao Madeiras Pereira;Martin Witzel;Giuseppe Conti;Raffaele de Amicis;Iñigo Barandarian;Cé line Paloc;Oliver Machui;Jose M Jimé nez;Georg Bodammer;Don McIntyre

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer-IGD, A2;Fraunhofer-IGD, A2;TU-Darmstadt, FB21,GRIS;TU-Darmstadt, FB21,GRIS;INESC-ID;INESC-ID;INESC-ID;INESC-ID;INESC-ID;GraphiTech;GraphiTech;GraphiTech;VICOMTech;VICOMTech;Trivisio GmbH;MED;STT;Lighthouse

  • Venue:
  • ICVR'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Virtual reality
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce an innovative application designed tomake collaborative design review in the architectural and automotive domainmore effective. For this purpose we present a system architecture whichcombines variety of visualization displays such as high resolution multitile displays, TabletPCs and head-mounted displays with innovative 2D and 3DInteraction Paradigms to better support collaborative mobile mixed realitydesign reviews. Our research and development is motivated by two usescenarios: automotive and architectural design review involving real users fromPage\Park architects and FIAT Elasis. Our activities are supported by the EUIST project IMPROVE aimed at developing advanced display techniques,fostering activities in the areas of: optical see-through HMD development usingunique OLED technology, marker-less optical tracking, mixed reality rendering,image calibration for large tiled displays, collaborative tablet-based andprojection wall oriented interaction and stereoscopic video streaming for mobileusers. The paper gives an overview of the hardware and software developmentswithin IMPROVE and concludes with results from first user tests.