Added RealityTomas Westerholm. - Helsinki - autumn 1998, spring 1999 |
Future technology provides us with the potential for augmented vision when our virtual reality glasses receive visual information from the environment.
Added Reality becomes an efficient new tool both in everyday situations and in advanced problem solving. |
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Simply the fact that our physical surroundings seem to be 3-dimensional speaks for the need of collecting, organizing and manipulating the data in 3D. The increasing use of 3D cad and other 3D applications (such as industrial robots, medical devices, visual effects and video games) automatically creates the need for more efficient tools.
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The potential users are many. Though in the first, expensive, stages of the technology it may be restricted to limited professionals, it would later spread to various areas of everyday life. The specific needs for this technology involve the needs of collecting, organizing and manipulating the data in a visual 3D format. In the special case of the 3D modelling cad application, the need is restricted more to a specific problem of controlling the visual and spatial qualities of the design. In that case the structural model of the real physical structure of the design could be a specific quality of the data. The specific user - for example, an architect - can be defined by his/her need to be able to "see" the proposed design beforehand as it will finally appear. Moreover he/she should be able to easily change all possible parameters in the design and thus be able to try out "all" possible configurations, resulting in the most suitable one. Because of the many parameters, even abstract ones, involved in that kind of design problem it has always been a tedious process to go through the variations. The change to a digital format has provided the whole design process with new opportunities. As having specific information on users and their common problems is crucial, the specific group of architects is chosen here because of a personal involvement in that area, though of course the technology can be applied to other issues of problem-solving and communication. |
abc /nov 2000