Re: Window on World

In classic VR research, that tended to be referred to as "Fishtank VR” … was popular when it was the only thing possible (using shutter glasses and a synch’d display, exactly like modern 3D TVs).

The difference with it and what’s been referred to as diorama mode is that the diorama’s are “fish tanks displayed in a full 3D display” (e.g., 6 DOF AR or VR)  vs “a 3D world anchored to a real-world display”. From a programmer viewpoint, it may not matter much;  both would likely be used from a web page with the expectation of the user not being immersed “in” the world.  And both would receive the user head-pose relative to the display/diarama/fishtank, rather than in a separate external 3D coordinate system.

This also feels like what zspace displays would use.




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On Dec 17, 2018, 1:44 PM -0500, Ada Rose Cannon <ada@ada.is>, wrote:
> Unless I am misunderstanding you, we've been referring to this mode as diorama mode.
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> There was some discussion on it at TPAC.
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> Ada
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> > On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 18:37, John D. Gwinner <john@gwinner.org> wrote:
> > > Has there been consideration for “Window on World” rendering?
> > >
> > > In other words, a flat or curved display screen, with some kind of head/eye tracker, and possibly 3D glasses, that would render as a “window” to a real 3D world behind the monitor?
> > >
> > > I tried some searches and got nowhere …
> > >
> > > There are at least two head trackers on the market that seem to offer this type of environment, currently just used for games. I didn’t see that any browsers support this.
> > >
> > > The reason I’m asking is mainly for Enterprise Data visualization. It would be far more comfortable to work in front of a large screen for hours than wear a headset at work for the same amount of time.
> > >
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