DART (The Designer's AR Toolkit) at SIGGRAPH

We would like to invite interested members of the AR community to join=20=

us for a Bird of a Feather meeting at SIGGRAPH 2004 on August 12th. At=20=

this BOF we will be presenting our first public release of the=20
Designer=92s Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART).  (DART will be available=20=

as a free download shortly after SIGGRAPH.)

Meeting time and place:
=A0=A0The Designer's Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART) BOF
   Thursday, 12 August
   Los Angeles Convention Center
   Room 505
   1 - 3 pm

We have created DART with the goal of providing a system that allows=20
high level designers rather than technologists to work with AR=20
experiences from initial prototyping, experience testing, and through=20
deployment. The DART system is built on top of Macromedia Director and=20=

consists of a low-level C++ plugin (Xtra) that provides services such=20
as VRPN, marker tracking, and video capture, as well as a suite of=20
behavior scripts written in the Director programming language (Lingo)=20
that represent the components of an MR application such as trackers, 3D=20=

models, cameras, and events. The goal was to create a set of MR=20
specific components that could be used by the developer following the=20
familiar Director paradigm.

Some DART Features:

o Full-featured multimedia programming environment
o Powerful 3D Engine
o Animated Models can be imported from popular
   programs (e.g. 3D Studio, Maya)
o ARToolkit Interface for marker tracking, VRPN
   interface for trackers, buttons, analog devices,
   and distributed shared memory
o Pre-defined virtual object types (animated 3D
   models, video-based characters, arbitrary scene
   graphs, audio, animatics)
o Havok physics engine used to create objects with
   realistic physical properties and behaviors
o Global event system
o Automatic generation of=A0remote "Wizard of Oz"
   interfaces to be used for prototyping and user
   testing
o Capture and playback of synchronized camera and
   tracker data for debugging, experience testing,
   prototyping, and animation
o Flexible tracker model that allows for easy
   modification of tracking configurations, the
   combination of live and synthetic trackers, and
   the simple fusion of data from multiple trackers
o Behaviors designed as extensible framework to be
   edited and modified as necessary

For more information, please visit http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/dart=

From:	Blair MacIntyre <blair@c ............>	Received:	Aug 2, 2004
To	Discussion on Augmented and Virtual Reality Technology (AR Forum) <arforum@a ....................................>, artoolkit@h ..................
Subject:	DART (The Designer's AR Toolkit) at SIGGRAPH
We would like to invite interested members of the AR community to join=20= us for a Bird of a Feather meeting at SIGGRAPH 2004 on August 12th. At=20= this BOF we will be presenting our first public release of the=20 Designer=92s Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART). (DART will be available=20= as a free download shortly after SIGGRAPH.) Meeting time and place: =A0=A0The Designer's Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART) BOF Thursday, 12 August Los Angeles Convention Center Room 505 1 - 3 pm We have created DART with the goal of providing a system that allows=20 high level designers rather than technologists to work with AR=20 experiences from initial prototyping, experience testing, and through=20 deployment. The DART system is built on top of Macromedia Director and=20= consists of a low-level C++ plugin (Xtra) that provides services such=20 as VRPN, marker tracking, and video capture, as well as a suite of=20 behavior scripts written in the Director programming language (Lingo)=20 that represent the components of an MR application such as trackers, 3D=20= models, cameras, and events. The goal was to create a set of MR=20 specific components that could be used by the developer following the=20 familiar Director paradigm. Some DART Features: o Full-featured multimedia programming environment o Powerful 3D Engine o Animated Models can be imported from popular programs (e.g. 3D Studio, Maya) o ARToolkit Interface for marker tracking, VRPN interface for trackers, buttons, analog devices, and distributed shared memory o Pre-defined virtual object types (animated 3D models, video-based characters, arbitrary scene graphs, audio, animatics) o Havok physics engine used to create objects with realistic physical properties and behaviors o Global event system o Automatic generation of=A0remote "Wizard of Oz" interfaces to be used for prototyping and user testing o Capture and playback of synchronized camera and tracker data for debugging, experience testing, prototyping, and animation o Flexible tracker model that allows for easy modification of tracking configurations, the combination of live and synthetic trackers, and the simple fusion of data from multiple trackers o Behaviors designed as extensible framework to be edited and modified as necessary For more information, please visit http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/dart=