Hrvoje Benko                                                               Virtual Environments / CSC 498

Daniel Goldshlack                                                                                 April 4, 2001

 

WIM Project Status Report

 

 

Accomplished tasks:

 

  1. Created a single room VE with several objects (table, ball, etc.) in it to provide us with a testing model for the initial stages of WIM development.
  2. Managed to create a miniature representation of the “big” virtual world and place it in the VE by attaching it to an empty object we named “WIM”  and making WIM a child to any object. In the head mounted display WIM will be attached to the tracker of the left hand therefore allowing it to be removed from the view and brought back as needed. We feel that having WIM attached to the left hand (or right hand for left-handed individuals) will provide an intuitive map-like interface for WIM.
  3. Since we want to implement WIM for any generic world, not only specially prepared worlds, we have to account for outside walls on the room. We started doing work on removing the outside faces of the room, however several difficulties were introduced and we were unable to finish that process by this progress report.
  4. We have also started the work on having the miniature world mimic the orientation of the real world by realigning every frame with the users view of the world. This work is not yet completely finished.
  5. We compiled the demo of the work accomplished so far.

 

Work that still needs to be done:

 

  1. Complete the front face removal process.
  2. Complete the realigning process.
  3. Add support for WIM object manipulation and concurrency between the WIM and the “outside” VE
  4. Add the support for multiple rooms (and possible multiple levels/floors).
  5. Add a voodoo doll representation of the user in the WIM for easier manipulation.

 

 

ŕ We would like to demo our project on Thursday 4/5/01 at 3:30 pm.

 

The difficulties, which we encountered in making the initial WIM model, slowed our progress significantly. We believe that we have overestimated our goals in the project proposal and we are unsure if we will be able to complete all the intended functionality by the final deadline. We are hoping that once these initial difficulties are resolved our progress will advance at a higher rate.