Design and implementation of a framework for immersive environments in a shared context

• Main Author: Yves, Boussemart
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: McGill University 2005
• Subjects: Computer Science.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82473

This thesis presents the framework used in our research group---the Shared Reality Environment Lab---for use in our spatially immersive setups. Our main interest is the application of virtual reality techniques in the context of computer-mediated human to human communication and collaboration. The purpose of this architecture is to allow users to quickly develop remote collaborative applications without the need to manage low level operations. The framework is comprised of multiple independent components: the Qave graphics engine, user trackers, sound spatializer, coherence server, communication library and overlapping projectors interface. Some components were already implemented when this work started and the contributions of this thesis are the graphics engine, the coherence server as well as the integration of the other components in that framework.