[opensource-dev] Snowglobe as an mixed reality platform

[Suzy Deffeyes]

I'm very interested in this work ( full disclosure, IBM is one of the
sponsors of the work), Moriz, I agree that today's head mounted displays are
a bit bulky for widespread use.  It is great foundational work, and there
are some aspects that we could integrate into Snowglobe that would be useful
*today*.  One of those is the gesture recognition code. It's towards the end
of Tuomas' video. It uses a webcam to detect a user nodding yes/no, and then
plays an in world animation based on detecting the gesture.

Merov, once the Snowglobe 2.0 code settles down, can we discuss a way to
have a pluggable framework that people could use for things like AR? Might
make a good topic for a Hippo meeting.
Suzy

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Moriz Gupte <moriz.gupte at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is very neat. Still a bit bulky for immediate use but a great
> foundation for future.
> R
>
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> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Kantonen Tuomas <Tuomas.Kantonen at vtt.fi>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been working on a project using Second Life as a platform to
>> develop mixed reality teleconferencing/-collaboration system. A brief
>> intro about the project can be found at
>> http://www.vtt.fi/multimedia/projects/mrconference.html
>> and a video demo of our work so far is at
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNB0_c-5TSk .
>>
>> The project, continuing also in 2010, is split into two parts:
>> overlaying a video image with avatars and virtual objects (augmented
>> reality; AR) and using hand and head gestures to control avatars and
>> interact with virtual objects (augmented virtuality; AV).
>>
>> We have agreed to release our work as open source. However, lack of
>> continuous "forward porting" would soon render the released code
>> unusable. It would therefore be better to have some parts of our
>> work incorporated into the Snowglobe sources.
>>
>> I've tried to keep all our modifications as small as possible. The
>> project is separated to our own ACME (Augmented Collaboration in Mixed
>> Environments) module, vanilla Snowglobe code and an interface between
>> the two.
>>
>> I'd be ready to invest some time to implement a generic AR/AV support
>> for Snowglobe if we could come up with a design that could be accepted
>> by the Snowglobe developers. This would allow anyone to use Snowglobe
>> as AR/AV research platform, with or without our software.
>>
>> --
>> - Tuomas Kantonen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
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