Our ultimate goal is to make a synergy of synthetic and 'real' (scanned) world, i.e. to have a mix of real and virtual worlds bot for input and output. The author of the text in New Scientis missed that part as he might have been interested only in 3D acquisition.
By coincidence we had a demo just yesterday when we showed exactly that - a miningful mix of "real" and synthetic worlds and two people collaborating in design process. Hope we will have these images on our web site soon.
The demo that has been mentioned happened at UNC in May 2000. However, do not forget that other schools and sites also took part in it.
The authors of the 3D real time acquisition system are researchers from GRASP lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia ( http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sequence/teleim1.html), and while Brown University did not have active role in the system we presented in May, they are very much part of the Initiative ( http://www.cs.brown.edu/~lsh/telei.html). They are now "responsible" for providing user interactions and having synthetic objects mixed with 3D acquisition data of real objects, so you may want to ckeck project web page soon to hear more about those developments (http://www.advanced.org/teleimmersion.ht ml). Advanced Network & Services provids founds and their own research staff.
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By coincidence we had a demo just yesterday when we showed exactly that - a miningful mix of "real" and synthetic worlds and two people collaborating in design process. Hope we will have these images on our web site soon.
I know. Made it myself.
The demo that has been mentioned happened at UNC in May 2000. However, do not forget that other schools and sites also took part in it.
The authors of the 3D real time acquisition system are researchers from GRASP lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia ( http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sequence/teleim1.html), and while Brown University did not have active role in the system we presented in May, they are very much part of the Initiative ( http://www.cs.brown.edu/~lsh/telei.html). They are now "responsible" for providing user interactions and having synthetic objects mixed with 3D acquisition data of real objects, so you may want to ckeck project web page soon to hear more about those developments (http://www.advanced.org/teleimmersion .ht ml). Advanced Network & Services provids founds and their own research staff.
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