Training Spatial Knowledge Acquisition Using Virtual Environments
Abstract
This report summarizes the work done by MIT in Year 3 (1 February 1998 through 31 January 1999) of the ONR Grant N00014-96-1-0937 entitled "Training Spatial Knowledge Acquisition Using Virtual Environments. " It has been prepared by Dr. Thomas E. V. Wiegand, Nathaniel Durlach (PI), Sam Madden, and Rebecca Lee Garnett. The main effort during this period has been directed towards the development of a hardware/software system (The "VE Construction System") to facilitate the creation of complex virtual building environments. Virtual environment modeling of complex spaces is presently a manually intensive task in which required labor increases markedly with the level of three-dimensional detail that must be represented. As most real-world spaces worth modeling are of high complexity, the cost of this process can have a significant negative impact on the scope and timeliness of such projects. The tools we have developed during this year of our program greatly reduce the amount of time acquired to build the complex photorealistic VE models necessary for performing our envisioned VSPAN experiments. Also, of course, these tools should prove useful for other programs conducted at other laboratories.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 25, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA373901
Entities
People
- Nathaniel I. Durlach
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology