Title
C1x6: a stereoscopic six-user display for co-located collaboration in shared virtual environments
Abstract
Stereoscopic multi-user systems provide multiple users with individual views of a virtual environment. We developed a new projection-based stereoscopic display for six users, which employs six customized DLP projectors for fast time-sequential image display in combination with polarization. Our intelligent high-speed shutter glasses can be programmed from the application to adapt to the situation. For instance, it does this by staying open if users do not look at the projection screen or switch to a VIP high brightness mode if less than six users use the system. Each user is tracked and can move freely in front of the display while perceiving perspectively correct views of the virtual environment. Navigating a group of six users through a virtual world leads to situations in which the group will not fit through spatial constrictions. Our augmented group navigation techniques ameliorate this situation by fading out obstacles or by slightly redirecting individual users along a collision-free path. While redirection goes mostly unnoticed, both techniques temporarily give up the notion of a consistent shared space. Our user study confirms that users generally prefer this trade-off over naïve approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2024156.2024222
ACM Trans. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
virtual world,fast time-sequential image display,multiple user,individual view,stereoscopic six-user display,user study,augmented group navigation technique,co-located collaboration,individual user,virtual environment,stereoscopic multi-user system,new projection-based stereoscopic display,virtual worlds,virtual reality,collaboration,display technology
Projection screen,Virtual reality,Virtual machine,Shared space,Computer graphics (images),Fading,Stereoscopy,Computer science,Shutter,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Image display
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
6
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
29
1.61
34
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Kulik19810.70
André Kunert218412.87
Stephan Beck316811.27
Roman Reichel4291.61
Roland Blach520120.04
Armin Zink6291.61
Bernd Froehlich760767.33