Hello All,
At the linux meet at HBCSE Rajeev had given a very nice demo of the new display drivers of linux that are well suited for 3D rendering. One application demonstrated was a 3D file browser that works like a walk through into a room with files and folders shaped like 3D objects.
This type of 3D walk through has tremendous potential for corporate films and demos. Future operating manuals for electronic equipment could also be in 3D form.
One important potential for this is in the shopping mall industry. Instead of visitng a crowded mall, getting trolleys entangled and walking for a few hours, an exact replica of the mall can be made available to the customers in the form of a CD or DVD depending on the content size. The mall walk through will have features like virtually removing the product from its shelf and turning it around to examine it. A more advanced feature may also allow the virtual shopper to open the jars or boxes and see the actual content inside, something the mall will not allow otherwise.
The software can be made available as a direct installation or to make it platform independent and live, it can be made into a live linux distro that does not do anything except detect minimum hw like kb, mouse, usb and concentrates fully on providing the maxiimum video and sound drivers and the actual application that will run live. No desktop or any normal os features or services or packages.
Regards,
Rony.
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On 4/24/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hello All,
At the linux meet at HBCSE Rajeev had given a very nice demo of the new display drivers of linux that are well suited for 3D rendering. One application demonstrated was a 3D file browser that works like a walk through into a room with files and folders shaped like 3D objects.
This type of 3D walk through has tremendous potential for corporate films and demos. Future operating manuals for electronic equipment could also be in 3D form. <snip>
I just stumbled upon something where the concept of 3D browser can be applied. An application can be made for preparing process maps which can be arranged as follows The top layer will show all the departments of the organisations. As you scroll down into any of the departments it will show a detail of processes performed by that department. As you go further into a process, there will be details of components of the process and how they are related. Clicking on a component it will give information about how it is to be carried on and the role of the employees in that component and how it relates to other components. Here we can also make use of media capabilities of 3D browser without launching external applications to show how the task is to carried out and some instructions on it. File system permissions can also be made use of to restrict the level of access the user can have over each level. Take for example the top management can have permission to view, modify and delete all the layers. The departmental managers can only have modify access to their department. but can only view the contents of other departments. The employees at lower level only have write capabilities in the processes they are involved with and can only read the information of their department. Whereas the customers can have read access to whatever concerns them. Also there can be a section where customers have write access and can place their queries and suggestions. Besides use can be made of syncronisation so that each needs of each department can be automatically forwarded to the other departments. Also there should be checks for conflicts between the objectives of the different departments so that the routine work is not affected.
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