Blue-c API: A multimedia and 3D video enhanced toolkit for collaborative VR and telepresence

Proceedings VRCAI 2004 - ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 11-18

  Naef, Martin ^a   Staadt, Oliver ^b   Gross, Markus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

3D video; Collaborative virtual environments; Multimedia; Telepresence; Virtual reality software system

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA ACQUISITION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; TELEPRESENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) VIDEO; VIRTUAL REALITY SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 10044227325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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