From: Raimund Dachselt
<dachselt@inf.tu-dresden.de>
Date:
To: Marc Bernatchez <marc.bernatchez@polymtl.ca>, 3DUI
<3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Is there any standard in VR?
Hi Marc,
well, standards are a big problem in the VE/VR field. I know of two efforts on
the SW side regarding standardization of interaction techniques and 3D-widgets.
One is the work by Pablo Figueroa (more on the VR-interaction side) on a Interaction Techniques Markup Language (InTml, http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~pfiguero/InTml/).
The other are our own efforts on standardization and
componentization of 3D-widgets (more on the desktop-VR-side). Infos at www.contigra.com or in the Web3D 2002 publication at
http://www-mmt.inf.tu-dresden.de/english/Projekte/CONTIGRA/Dokumentation/Publikationen/.
Have a look at a part of the widget classification and hierarchy under
http://www-mmt.inf.tu-dresden.de/english/Projekte/CONTIGRA/Realisierung/Komponentenhierarchie/
(will be updated soon). The behavior of widgets will be delivered together with
their geometry and can be parameterized in a high-level manner. Different
target formats are possible.
Hope this helps a little.
Kind Regards,
Raimund Dachselt
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Dresden University of Technology - Department of Computer Science
Endowed Chair for Multimedia Technology
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Project Contigra: Interactive 3D-components
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Hi all, I'm currently looking for the existence of standards
in the VE/VR
field. Is there such a thing as a VR standard?
I interested in hardware standards as well as software ones. Specifically,
on the software side, is there any standard yet? Agreed, we have OpenGL, but
this standard is not directly related to VR. I'm talking about higher-level
standards for user interface and user interaction (IT's). Things like
standard 3D UI toolkits libraries for VR.
Any info / remark / thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Marc Bernatchez
Ph.D. candidate
Ecole Polytechnique de
marc.bernatchez@polymtl.ca