Project Number
- 246
Title
- Shared Space; Collaborative Augmented Reality
Description
- Overlapping virtual and real world interface to enhance face-to-face and remote collaboration.
Contact
- Mark Billinghurst
Affiliation
- University of Washington
Address
- Human Interface Technology Laboratory
- 215 Fluke Hall Box 352142
- Seattle, Washington 98195
- 215 Fluke Hall Box 352142
- grof@hitl.washington.edu
WWW
Year
- 1999
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Shared Space merges real and virtual worlds in a way that can radically enhance face-to-face and remote collaboration. By wearing a lightweight, see-through head-mounted display, users see 3D virtual images overlaid on the real world and attached to real-world objects."
- For face-to-face collaboration, the overlay allows users to see each other at the same time as the virtual images between them, supporting natural communication between users and intuitive manipulation of virtual objects.
- "For remote collaboration, Shared Space overlays life-sized live virtual video images of remote collaborators on the local real environment."
- For both interfaces, computer vision techniques are used to precisely register virtual images with physical objects, extending the "tangible interface" metaphor.
Sight
- graphics workstation, head-mounted displays
Sound
- earphones
Touch
- reality with visual overlay
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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