Abstract
The development and realisation of complex virtual environments, with functionality beyond walk throughs, will place considerable demands on the software engineer. The use of toolkits is necessary in order to allow the development of virtual environments in a time and cost effective manner. The concepts of our 3D-User Interface toolkit GIVEN (Gesture-based Interactions in Virtual ENvironmenst) will be described. The problems we tackled in GIVEN include input device independence, individual object behavior, gesture dialogue and recognition as well as multi-user and network transparency.
The first application of GIVEN is as the virtual reality user interface for the MuSE simulator. MuSE is an integrated environment for development, verification and simulation of technical systems. The functionality of the MuSE hypermedia user interface, the simulation capabilities and the MuSE VR user interface are described. An outlook on the future of GIVEN and MuSE is given.
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Sokolewicz, M., Wirth, H., Böhm, K., John, W. (1995). Using the GIVEN toolkit for system development in MuSE . In: Göbel, M. (eds) Virtual Environments ’95. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9433-1_22
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