The Pen and Paper Paradigm Supporting Multiple Users on the Virtual Table

  • Authors:
  • Jochen Ehnes;Christian Knöpfle;Matthias Unbescheiden

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VR '01 Proceedings of the Virtual Reality 2001 Conference (VR'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The Virtual Table present stereoscopic graphics to usually a single user in a workbench like setting. This paper describes the pen and paper paradigm, which besides being an easy to use user interface for sketching or similar tasks, provides the possibility for several user to work on the Virtual Table at the same time. They are not only able to move object or to sketch on them independently, but they even can view the object they are working on in a stereoscopic mode with the correct perspective due to individual head tracking. This way the Virtual Table become usable for groups of users, too. At the same time the pen and paper paradigm in combination with two handed input create a very intuitive user interface for drawing, sketching or painting tasks.