Project Number
- 268
Title
- Magic Book: Exploring Transitions in Collaborative AR Interfaces
Description
- Immersive virtual environment for exploring transitions between physical, augmented, and virtual realities.
Contact
- Mark Billinghurst, Susan Campbell
Affiliation
- University of Washington
Address
- Human Interface Technology Laboratory
- Fluke Hall, Room 215
- Box 352142
- Seattle, Washington 98195-2142
- Fluke Hall, Room 215
- grof@hitl.washington.edu
WWW
Year
- 2000
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Magic Book explores transitions between physical reality, augmented reality, and immersive virtual reality in a collaborative setting."
- A Magic Book appears like a conventional story book. When viewed by lightweight head-mounted displays, the pictures pop off the page and come to life as animated objects in virtual scenes. "Readers can also fly into the immersive VR world and freely explore the scene."
- "Several readers can gather around a Magic Book and experience it together." They can view independent augmented reality (AR) scenes or fly into the immersive world and see each other represented as avatars in the same world. Those who remain in the AR setting have a God's-eye view of their collaborators, who appear as miniature avatars in the virtual scene."
Sight
- graphics workstation, head mounted displays
Sound
Touch
- Magic Book, augmented reality surface
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 101 - hypermedia, hypertext
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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