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While popular as a visual interface, current interactive 3-D
environments are often times painstakingly created by hand, making
it difficult to mass-produce custom environments quickly. To
address these issues, researchers at HP Labs have developed virtual
environment design automation or VEDA. VEDA is a powerful 3-D
interface for information exploration and interaction. Unlike
traditional 3-D interfaces, the layouts are automatically organized
and designed in real-time based on prespecified design rules,
metadata, and user preferences. It provides a pleasant,
intuitive, responsive, and customizable environment that gives users
a lot of freedom without feeling overwhelmed. It promotes the
concept of visual discovery and browsing, in contrast to today's
hyperlink-based web pages. Furthermore, VEDA employs efficient
rendering algorithms for real-time interaction. It also forms
a natural framework to seamlessly integrate rich media together into
a single coherent environment with numerous applications in
e-commerce and beyond.
For more technical details, please refer to the following paper:
N. L. Chang and A. Said, "Automatically Designed 3D
Environments for Intuitive Exploration," IEEE International
Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Taipei, Taiwan, June
2004. A longer version appears as HP Labs
Technical Report HPL-2003-92, April 2003 (pdf
download).
Contact
For more information about the technology, please contact Nelson
Chang (nelson.chang @ hp.com) at Imaging Technology Dept., HP
Labs.
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