From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Chris Hand [cph@bcs.org.uk] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 4:28 PM To: Paul J Perry; 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu; Jason Jerald Subject: RE: Window content on 3D Walls/Objects - Final Year Student Two or three years ago a student of mine experimented with getting Swing (java) components into 3D in a VRML window, with some success using EAI... if there's a general component that can render HTML (HotJava?!) then maybe this would work via EAI too. Chris On 13 Mar 00 at 10:36, Jason Jerald wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu > > [mailto:owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Paul J Perry > > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 7:08 AM > > To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu > > Subject: Window content on 3D Walls/Objects - Final Year Student > > > > > > Hello folks, > > > > I want to put HTML content onto the surface of 3D objects in virtual > > worlds..Anyone got any info? > > > > Cheers > > Paul > > > > This sounds like a very simple problem, but one runs into some problems when > implementing it. We have submitted a paper abstract to IPT2000 which talks > about some of these issues in converting and interacting with general 2d > applications to a 3d immersive environment. Attached are the references for > the paper. > > Hope this helps, > > Jason > > > [1] Cruz-Neira, C., Sandin, D.J., and DeFanti, T.A., Virtual Reality: The > Design and Implementation of the CAVE, in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '93 > Computer Graphics Conference, ACM SIGGRAPH, August 1993, pp. 135-142. > [2] Daily, M., Sarfaty, R., Jerald, J., McInnes, D., Tinker, P. The > "CABANA": A Reconfigurable Spatially Immersive Dipslay, in Proceedings of > the Third International Immersive Projection Technology Workshop, 1999, pp. > 123-132. > [3] Dykstra, P., X11 in Virtual Environments, in proceedings of the IEEE > Symposium on Research Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 1993. > [4] Elmqvist, N., Karlsson, R., Chalmers Medialab Three-Dimensional Window > Manager, http://www.oreality.com/synapse/index.html, 1999. > [5] Feiner, S., MacIntyre, B., Haupt, M., and Solomon, E. Windows on the > world: 2D windows for 3D augmented reality, in Proceedings of the User > Interface Technology and Software, 1993, pp. 145-155. > [6] Heath, D. Virtual User Interface (VUI) A windowing System for VR, in > Proceedings of the Second International Immersive Projection Technology > Workshop, 1998. > [7] Hix, D., Swan, J., Gabbard, J., McGee, M., Durbin, J., King, T., > User-Centered Design and Evaluation of a Real-Time Battlefield Visualization > Virtual Environment, Proceedings of the Virtual Reality '99 Conference, > 1999, pp. 96-103. > [8] Neely, H., Jerald, J., Tinker, P., Fox, J. Human-Centered Interaction > for Command and Control, Raytheon Software Technology Symposium, 1999. > [9] Objective Reality, Synapse > http://www.oreality.com/software/synapse.html, 1999. > [10] Robertson, G., Dantzich, M., Robbins, D., Microsoft Task Gallery, > http://www.research.microsoft.com/ui/TaskGallery, 1999. > [11] Richardson, T., Stafford-Fraser, Q., Wood, K., Hopper, A., "Virtual > Network Computing", IEEE Internet Computing, Vol.2 No.1, Jan/Feb 1998 pp. > 33-38. > > -- Chris Hand cph@bcs.org.uk http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~cph/ cph@dcs.napier.ac.uk Edinburgh, Scotland ICQ: 16674813