Collaborative immersive workspace through a shared augmented environment

Kiyoshi Kiyokawa; Hidehiko Iwasa; Haruo Takemura; Naokazu Yokoya

doi:10.1117/12.326923

9 October 1998 Collaborative immersive workspace through a shared augmented environment

Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Hidehiko Iwasa, Haruo Takemura, Naokazu Yokoya

Proceedings Volume 3517, Intelligent Systems in Design and Manufacturing; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.326923
Event: Photonics East (ISAM, VVDC, IEMB), 1998, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

We focus on a shared augmented environment (SAE) as an almost ideal face-to-face collaborative virtual workspace. In an SAE, multiple users can observe both a virtual world and real partners through optical see-through head mounted displays. This paper describes two experiments for verifying the effectiveness of an SAE compared with a conventional shared virtual environment (SVE) and exploring improvement of them. Through the experiments, the effectiveness of an SAE compared with an SVE was confirmed. It was also confirmed that enhancement of the shared environment with computer graphics, i.e. displaying a partner's body in an SVE, drawing a linear as a partner's viewing directions and emphasizing virtual objects to which a partner pay attention, improves workers' feeling and collaboration efficiency.

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Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Hidehiko Iwasa, Haruo Takemura, and Naokazu Yokoya "Collaborative immersive workspace through a shared augmented environment", Proc. SPIE 3517, Intelligent Systems in Design and Manufacturing, (9 October 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.326923

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