Multimedia integration into the blue-c API

Martin Naef, Oliver Staadt, Markus Gross
2005 Computers & graphics  
In this article, we present the blue-c application programming interface (API) and discuss some of its performance characteristics. The blue-c API is a software toolkit for media-rich, collaborative, immersive virtual reality applications. It provides easy to use interfaces to all blue-c technology, including immersive projection, live 3D video acquisition and streaming, audio, tracking, and gesture recognition. We emphasize on our performance-optimized 3D video handling and rendering pipeline,
more » ... which is capable of rendering 3D video inlays consisting of up to 30,000 fragments updated at 10 Hz in real time, enabling remote users to meet inside our virtual environment. r
doi:10.1016/j.cag.2004.11.003 fatcat:ptf3tlxz4ndcha24eayvujs23a