A new collaborative infrastructure: SCAPE

This paper presents a multi-user collaborative infrastructure, SCAPE (an acronym for Stereoscopic Collaboration in Augmented and Projective Environments), which is based on recent advancement in head-mounted projective display (HMPD) technology. The SCAPE mainly consists of a 3'/spl times/5...

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Main Authors: Hong Hua, Brown, L.D., Chunyu Gao, Ahuja, N.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Collaboration
Virtual reality
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Summary:This paper presents a multi-user collaborative infrastructure, SCAPE (an acronym for Stereoscopic Collaboration in Augmented and Projective Environments), which is based on recent advancement in head-mounted projective display (HMPD) technology. The SCAPE mainly consists of a 3'/spl times/5' interactive workbench and a 12'/spl times/12'/spl times/9' room-sized walk-through display environment, multiple head-tracked HMPDs, multi-modality interface devices, and a generic application-programming interface (API) designed to coordinate the components. The infrastructure provides a shared space in which multiple users can simultaneously interact with a 3D synthetic environment from their individual viewpoints. We detail the SCAPE implementation and include an application example that demonstrates major interface and cooperation features.
ISSN:1087-8270
2375-5326
DOI:10.1109/VR.2003.1191136