An infrastructure for remote virtual exploration on PDAs

  • Authors:
  • Rosario De Chiara;Ugo Erra;Andrea Petta;Vittorio Scarano;Luigi Serra

  • Affiliations:
  • Universita degli Studi di Salerno;Universita degli Studi di Salerno;Universita degli Studi di Salerno;Universita degli Studi di Salerno;Universita degli Studi di Salerno

  • Venue:
  • IV '07 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference Information Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we present a prototyped system to enable the virtual exploration of a complex virtual environment. Our approach exploits Quest3D as main rendering engine, its output is conveyed toward users PDAs to allow them to explore using the PDA as a (mobile) interface to the virtual environment. An important aspect of the system is that it relies on an off-the-shelf PC and low end wireless network. Some early results showed that the prototype is able to easily manage 5 PDAs. Suggested fields of use of our system are virtual cultural heritage, educational virtual environments, videogames.