Project Number
- 328
Title
- The Virtual Showcase: A Projection-Based Multi-User Augmented Reality Display
Description
- Museum display-case technology for enhanced learning and understanding of cultural and scientific artifacts.
Contact
- Oliver Bimber
Affiliation
- Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics
Address
- 321 South Main Street
- Providence, Rhode Island 02903
- obimber@crcg.edu
WWW
Year
- 2002
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "The Virtual Showcase is a new projection-based and application-specific Augmented Reality display that offers an innovative way of accessing, presenting, and interacting with scientific and cultural content."
- "Conceptually, the Virtual Showcase is compatible with conventional showcases used by museums. However, it supports the display of computer generated 3D graphics and animations together with real artifacts within the same space. The Virtual Showcase offers perspective correct stereoscopic viewing for multiple users, high resolution, low parallax (reflected projection plane within the showcase), and support for mutual occlusion between real and virtual objects."
- "The Virtual Showcase consists of a convex assembly of half-silvered mirrors and a graphics display. Showcase contents are illuminated with controlled light sources while view-dependent stereoscopic graphics are presented to head-tracked observers."
Sight
- graphics workstation, digital light projector (DLP), conventional illumination
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 301 - visualization
Secondary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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