Tech Meeting Updates

omegalib / CAVE2

• improved few things with cylindrical config support
• now changing a couple of parameters (start angle, number of tiles) it is possible to control portions of the display system
• working on wand support / interaction
• default mapping: pick and move with wand ray & triggers, rotate with analog stick, menu interaction with digital arrows + confirm / cancel button
• Navigation / Interaction / Menu control are implemented as separate modules, so it is possible to experiment with different interaction schemes.
• Revising menu system
• Can be controlled by ray or gamepad
• Working on a stacked submenu layout
• SkyBox / panorama support
• Can now load cube-mapped panoramas as well as planar panoramas (like ones in CalVR)
• panoramas can be added as background to existing apps
• Applications
• working on simple model viewer
• View single model from a set
• Manipulate model
• Control animation on the model

A cube-mapped panorama



A planar-mapped panorama

HANDS

• started work on next prototype iteration.
• the prototype will use a new layout
• Next interview round: first week of September.