Magic Lens

Project Overview

The project is building upon the work found in the prior project ArtifactVis with Android Device. The goal of MagicLens is to allow the user to use an android device as a "magical lens" to view the world. The device will update its perspective on the world depending on its location in the world. Additonally head tracking will affect how the world is displayed depending on how it is viewed by the user.

Progress Updates

• January 18 : Configured workspace and OpenSceneGraph for android.
• Feburary 1 : Android App can handle custom IP addresses.

TO DO

• Parse tracking information to the android device and ensure it can be processed

Known Bugs/Issues

• Connection Issues - Android application connects to CalVR only on Rubble and Gneiss ~ Needs to open up firewall permissions (port 28888) on other computers before being able to connect
• Android application occasionally freezes or crashes without warning

Future Work

• Ensuring the network connection is not hardcoded
• Tracking device panning and replicating movement on CalVR
• Heading tracking and replicating displaced object on device

Developers

Software Developer

• Tony Chan
• Michael Chao

Project Advisor

• Jurgen Schulze