1. DAFFIE and the Wall Erik Brisson ebrisson@bu.edu SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

2. What's in a virtual world? SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

3. What's in a virtual world? An environment Representations of physical objects –Visual models –Auditory elements Interactions with objects Representations of people - avatars Communication –Gesturing –Telephony –Video SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

4. DAFFIE An environment Distributed Interactive Visually and aurally rich Input (models, images and sounds) from variety of available tools Simple import method Script driven Accessible to non-expert users Extensible by programmers SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

5. The DAFFIE scene graph SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

6. DAFFIE event system Communication between agents SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

7. The BU DVD Wall 24 projectors 24 Linux machines Passive stereo One “head node” Localized sound Wireless navigation SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

8. Software for the Wall Chromium – distributed OpenGL library DAFFIE Movie player SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008

9. The End SCV Visualization Workshop – Fall 2008