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An open software architecture for virtual reality interaction

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Gerhard Reitmayr,

Dieter SchmalstiegAuthors Info & Claims

VRST '01: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology

Pages 47 - 54

https://doi.org/10.1145/505008.505018

Published: 15 November 2001 Publication History

Abstract

This article describes OpenTracker, an open software architecture that provides a framework for the different tasks involved in tracking input devices and processing multi-modal input data in virtual environments and augmented reality application. The OpenTracker framework eases the development and maintenance of hardware setups in a more flexible manner than what is typically offered by virtual reality development packages. This goal is achieved by using an object-oriented design based on XML, taking full advantage of this new technology by allowing to use standard XML tools for development, configuration and documentation. The OpenTracker engine is based on a data flow concept for multi-modal events. A multi-threaded execution model takes care of tunable performance. Transparent network access allows easy development of decoupled simulation models. Finally, the application developer's interface features both a time-based and an event based model, that can be used simultaneously, to serve a large range of applications. OpenTracker is a first attempt towards a "'write once, input anywhere"' approach to virtual reality application development. To support these claims, integration into an existing augmented reality system is demonstrated. We also show how a prototype tracking equipment for mobile augmented reality can be assembled from consumer input devices with the aid of OpenTracker. Once development is sufficiently mature, it is planned to make Open-Tracker available to the public under an open source software license.

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VRST '01: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology

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DOI:10.1145/505008

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Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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