ReachIn Desktop Virtual Environment with Force Feedback for Surface Editing In Gocad

@inproceedings{KowalikRM2002,
 abstract = { Gocad users --do you feel limited by 2D-mouse interaction in Gocad? Ever wish you could reach around a complex 3D surface and easily reshape it locally? Do you dream that a fault surface could behave as a physical barrier to your edit work? If so, then read on. And by all means, participate in the demonstrations later. ChevronTexaco, ReachIn AB and T-Surf Inc. have implemented surface editing in a desktop Virtual Environment (VE) system as a plug-in to Gocad. The VE facilitates the process of manual editing of complex tsurfs. It uses active stereoscopic display in the PC version of Gocad and employs the Sensable Technologies Desktop Phantom, which is a precision 3D pointing device (not a mouse). The 3D pointing hardware also provides force feedback – giving the tsurfs a tangible feel. The real stylus in your dominant hand and the virtual stylus in your virtual view are approximately co-located to enhance the sense of working on a real object. A Magellan 6 degree-of-freedom mouse is used in the nondominant hand to navigate and zoom on the model. The result is a natural and realistic, two-handed interaction with the virtual Gocad model. Tsurfs and other objects are transferred between Gocad and the VE via a Corba link The desktop VR system can (1) speed up the editing process, (2) make the edit process easier and (3) allow editing that could not be done before with only 2D mouse-based interaction. This project is funded by the ongoing ChevronTexaco Strategic Research project on visualization. The business arrangement encourages ReachIn to market this plugin to other companies, and T-Surf is a reseller. },
 author = { Kowalik, Bill AND Lo, Michele AND Griesbach, Sue AND Dobbs, Steve AND McLaughlin, John AND Ostman, Jan AND Bosquet, Fabien },
 booktitle = { 22th gOcad Meeting },
 month = { "june" },
 publisher = { ASGA },
 title = { ReachIn Desktop Virtual Environment with Force Feedback for Surface Editing In Gocad },
 year = { 2002 }
}