Re: Window on World

I've proposed the word "fenestragraph" at a handful of VR talks in the Bay
Area: https://cmloegcmluin.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/fenestragraph/
Not as catchy, but more technical.

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 11:19 AM Waliczek, Nell <nhw@amazon.com> wrote:

> That was roughly my thinking, too, when I filed this issue:
> https://github.com/immersive-web/proposals/issues/31
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> *From: *Blair MacIntyre <bmacintyre@mozilla.com>
> *Date: *Monday, December 17, 2018 at 11:15 AM
> *To: *"john@gwinner.org" <john@gwinner.org>, Ada Rose Cannon <ada@ada.is>
> *Cc: *"public-immersive-web@w3.org" <public-immersive-web@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Re: Window on World
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> 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).
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> 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
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> 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:
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> 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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> On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 18:37, John D. Gwinner <john@gwinner.org> wrote:
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> Has there been consideration for “Window on World” rendering?
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> 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?
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> I tried some searches and got nowhere …
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> 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.
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> 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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