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Supporting guided navigation in mobile virtual environments

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Rafael Garcia Barbosa,

Maria Andréia Formico RodriguesAuthors Info & Claims

VRST '06: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology

Pages 220 - 226

https://doi.org/10.1145/1180495.1180541

Published: 01 November 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Developing interactive 3D graphics for mobile Java applications is a reality. Recently, the Mobile 3D Graphics (M3G) API was proposed to provide an efficient 3D graphics environment suitable for the J2ME platform. However, new services and applications using interactive 3D graphics, which have already achieved reasonable standards on the desktop, do not yet exist for resource-constrained handheld devices. In this work, we developed a framework for supporting guided navigation in mobile virtual environments. To illustrate its main functionalities, a virtual rescue training was designed, implemented and tested on mobile phones. Users can load virtual environments from a remote PC server, navigate through them, find an optimal and collision-free path from one place to another, and obtain additional information on the objects.

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Index Terms

Supporting guided navigation in mobile virtual environments
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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VRST '06: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology

November 2006

400 pages

ISBN:1595933212

DOI:10.1145/1180495

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Osaka University, Japan
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ICCS-NTUA, Greece
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University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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