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=
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