Title
Multimedia integration into the blue-c API
Abstract
In this article, we present the blue-c application programming interface (API) and discuss some of its performance characteristics. The blue-c API is a software toolkit for media-rich, collaborative, immersive virtual reality applications. It provides easy to use interfaces to all blue-c technology, including immersive projection, live 3D video acquisition and streaming, audio, tracking, and gesture recognition. We emphasize on our performance-optimized 3D video handling and rendering pipeline, which is capable of rendering 3D video inlays consisting of up to 30,000 fragments updated at 10Hz in real time, enabling remote users to meet inside our virtual environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.cag.2004.11.003
Computers & Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
video handling,Virtual reality software system,collaborative virtual environments,Multimedia,video acquisition,immersive virtual reality application,video inlay,blue-c application programming interface,virtual environment,3D video,gesture recognition,immersive projection,multimedia,multimedia integration,blue-c API,Collaborative virtual environments,blue-c technology,Telepresence,virtual reality software system,telepresence,3d video
Journal
29
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
Computers & Graphics
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
19
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Naef127920.22
Oliver Staadt224318.97
Markus H. Gross310154549.95