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International Symposium on Visual Computing

ISVC 2008: Advances in Visual Computing pp 1106–1114Cite as

Building New Mixed Reality Devices

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We present a platform that offers designers flexibility on device design, fast prototyping, and integration of new devices to a mixed reality infrastructure. Our solution is based on the integration of a commercial embedded system, the Qwerk, and the Virtual Reality Peripheral Network (VRPN), a network-transparent interface between applications and typical virtual reality (VR) devices. This solution creates a hardware and software layer between new devices and VR applications that facilitate development. We show here three examples. The first application targets a simple device for object movement on an axis. The second one consists on a device that changes the color of a virtual object based on temperature. Finally, we design, build, and test a new wireless navigation device, our “Light Gloves”.

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  1. Universisdad de los Andes, Colombia, Colombia

    Camilo A. Perez & Pablo A. Figueroa

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

    Paolo Remagnino

  6. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Fatih Porikli

  7. Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box, FL 32611-6120, Gainsville, USA

    Jörg Peters

  8. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, NY 10532, Hawthorne, USA

    James Klosowski

  9. 128 Memorial Mall, Stewart B001, IN 47907, West Lafayette, USA

    Laura Arns

  10. Denver Museum of Nature and Space, 2001 Colorade Blvd. Denver,, CO 80205, USA

    Yu Ka Chun

  11. Departmen of Computer Science,, NC State University, Campus Box 8206, NC 27695-8206, Raleigh, USA

    Theresa-Marie Rhyne

  12. Los Alamos National Labs, P.O. Box 1663, NM 87545, Los Alamos, USA

    Laura Monroe

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Perez, C.A., Figueroa, P.A. (2008). Building New Mixed Reality Devices. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5359. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89646-3_110

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