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Issue Mécanique & Industries
Volume 5, Number 2, Mars-Avril 2004
VIRTUAL CONCEPT 2002
Page(s) 129 - 137
DOI 10.1051/meca:2004013

Mécanique & Industries 5, 129-137 (2004)
DOI: 10.1051/meca:2004013

Interactions 3D coopératives en environnements virtuels avec OpenMASK pour l'exploitation d'objets techniques

Thierry Duval and Christian Le Tenier

IRISA - UMR 6074 (INRIA - CNRS - Université de Rennes 1 - INSA Rennes), Projet SIAMES, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France

(Reçu le 30 juin 2003, accepté le 20 octobre 2003)

Abstract - 3D Collaborative interactions within virtual environments with OpenMASK for technical objects exploitation. In this paper we present the mechanisms we implement within the OpenMASK framework with the aim to make more easy the 3D interactions within virtual worlds. We are interested in technical objects with a lot of constraints during the interactions. We talk about the generic mechanisms used to interact with virtual objects and to make the users aware of the interaction services offered by the interactive objects, before and during the interactions. Finally we explain how we take into account the need to make the users aware of other users interactions within collaborative virtual universes.


Résumé - Nous présentons ici les mécanismes que nous implémentons au-dessus de la plate-forme OpenMASK dans le but de faciliter l'interaction dans les mondes virtuels 3D, en particulier lorsqu'ils sont peuplés d'objets à forte composante technique, c'est-à-dire imposant de fortes contraintes lors des interactions 3D. Nous présentons les mécanismes génériques utilisés pour permettre d'interagir avec des objets ainsi que pour obtenir des informations permettant de visualiser le plus explicitement possible les possibilités d'interactions offertes par les objets ainsi que les interactions effectivement en cours. Nous terminons par la façon de rendre explicite les interactions des autres utilisateurs dans le cas des univers 3D coopératifs.


Key words: Collaborative virtual reality / 3D interactions / interaction awareness / collaboration awareness

Corresponding author: Thierry.Duval@irisa.fr

© AFM, EDP Sciences 2004


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