Virtual theatre Virtual set Virtual Environments Educational TV Streaming video
Remote and PDA controlled visulization research project focuses on the design and implementation of interfaces for interaction with Immersive Virtual Environments through handheld devices.
The use of this kind of devices, combined with wireless networking, improves the usability of standard VR. This could be particularly useful in application fields (i.e. Virtual Heritage), where, for the vast majority of users, we cannot expect any significant exposure to advanced VR environments and their specialized interfaces.

The Virtual Theatre

It is a framework for immersive graphics applications development and fruition

CINECA's Virtual Theatre: a success story (pdf)

 

The Virtual Set
(in collaboration with RAI Studio TV1 - MI

  Optometric sensors, infrared LED, radiofrequency pointers and optical grids for pattern recognition are used in order to transmit to the cameras the co-ordinates of the movements.
  Except for the actors and some real objects, the Virtual Set is empty and covered with a bluescreen. The various elements of the virtual scenography can be seen only on a video.
  Scene from the documentary

 

Educational TV on demand
Mosaico: a TV mediateque for educational support

. With a simple registration people have the possibility of asking for the broadcasting of the documentary

The conference via streaming video

  http://www.cineca.it/convegni/ut_natura_ars/