ARCTIS: augmented reality collaborative tangible interactive simulation

ABSTRACT

We will present an interactive rapid prototyping platform which allows collaborative analysis of ongoing simulations to optimize products or carry out experiments. Our approach is to integrate the simulation, analysis and physical prototype or experiment into one consistent environment to not only analyse a problem but also modify and thus optimize the product we are simulating. By using parallel high performance computers, we can obtain high quality simulation results with interactive response times. We are using advanced visualization techniques like direct volume rendering, Virtual- and Augmented Reality to visualize the simulation results.Physical objects provide easy to use user interfaces to interact with both the simulation and the analysis of the simulation results. Virtual environments provide high quality visualization at scale 1:1 and allow for collaborative analysis of the results.We will demonstrate the applicability of our approach with an interactive air-flow simulation in urban planning.

Index Terms

• Computing methodologies

  • Artificial intelligence

    • Computer vision

      • Image and video acquisition

        • 3D imaging

  • Computer graphics

    • Animation

    • Graphics systems and interfaces

      • Virtual reality

  • Modeling and simulation

    • Model development and analysis

• Human-centered computing

  • Collaborative and social computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

    • Interaction paradigms

      • Mixed / augmented reality

      • Virtual reality