Last week, a colleague of mine has presented a paper we co-authored, to the 10th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality 2008 (SVR 2008). The conference took place in Joao Pessoa, Brazil between 13th to 16th May. The title of the paper is ‘Developing a Framework for the Automatic Generation and Visualisation Of 3D Urban Areas on Mobile Devices’. Briefly, the paper proposes a complete procedural 3D modelling solution for mobile device usage of the content, based on scripting algorithms allowing for both the automatic and also semi-automatic creation of photorealistic quality virtual urban content.
The content produced can be specially optimized for use with mobile devices but also with navigational tasks in mind. Moreover, a user-centred mobile virtual reality (VR) visualisation and interaction tool operating on PDAs for pedestrian navigation is also discussed supporting the import and display of various navigational file formats equipped with a comprehensive front-end user-friendly graphical user interface providing immersive virtual 3D navigation to a wide range of users.A draft version of the paper can be downloaded from here.