Virtual Landscapes
Thursday, 16 August
10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Room 404

Session Chair
Cheryl Stockon
Studio Firefly and Pratt Institute


PlaceWorld: An Integration of Shared Virtual Worlds
Jon Cook
University of Manchester
Computer Science Building
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL UNITED KINGDOM
cookj@cs.man.ac.uk

PlaceWorld is designed to bring disparate electronic artworks together in a single multi-user virtual environment that affords social interaction.


Virtual Showcases
Oliver Bimber
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Joachim Jungius Strasse 11
Rostock 18059 GERMANY
obimber@rostock.igd.fhg.de

A new multi-user AR display system and developed real-time rendering and image transformation techniques.


ALVIN on the Web: Distributive Mission Rehearsal for Deep Submersible Vehicle
Jan Jungclaus
Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics, Inc.
321 South Main Street
Providence, Rhode Island 29030 USA
jjungcla@crcg.edu
alvin.crcg.edu

This distributive online simulation system allows scientific and public users to collaboratively train and plan the Alvin submarine's missions in a realistic and interactive cockpit environment.


A Head-Mounted Projective Display and its Applications in Interactive Augmented Environments
Hong Hua
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
405 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA
Honghua@uiuc.edu

HMPD technology and its featured capabilities, a recent prototype for a compact HMPD implementation, and application examples for interactive augmented environments.