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Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Doug James and his supervisor Dinesh Pai, have used the CyberGlove® to interact with real-time elastic models that they have created
Doug is a Ph.D. student in UBC's Institute of Applied Math (IAM) program. Doug's thesis project involves designing efficient numerical algorithms suitable for interactively simulating realistic three-dimensional elastic models on ordinary personal computers. These models have various applications, for example, in VR, computer games, real time animation and medical simulation.
Dinesh Pai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. With his students, he is developing multimodal interactive simulators with realistic visual, auditory, and haptic feedback. He directs the UBC Active Measurement facility (ACME), a robotic facility for automatically acquiring such realistic models from measurements of existing objects. More information on his work is available at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~pai.
"Using the CyberGlove we were able to directly interact with our virtual
elastic objects in a natural way. The interactions possible using one's
own hand are more subtle and compelling than with other traditional input
devices. It also became a relatively simple task to inspect the performance
of various numerical optimizations used in the elastic model, since it
was possible to simply grasp the objects. In the end, these glove-based
interactive simulations provided a clear example of what our deformable
models were capable of; as a result, it was used as a live demo in our
SIGGRAPH 99 ArtDefo talk.
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