ISD Lecture
3D Geoweb Foundations for Real World Virtual Worlds
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Michael Liebhold, Institute for the Future
3D data, maps, and software will change the way we compute and interact with spatial services. Moving beyond simple texture mapped terrain and boxes, new 3D mapping frameworks are rapidly evolving into platforms for real world virtual world media, interaction, commerce, and science. In this talk I'll review work of various groups who are building different components of a 3D Geoweb. I will first describe how their 3D data and software will work as a platform for a 3D real world virtual world, and then, what kinds of new applications and user experiences might be developed on these platforms, and then finish with a brief discussion of prospects and mechanisms for data interoperabity allowing users to create, discover, use, and exchange 3D data across platforms.
Mike Liebhold is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for the Future focusing on the mobile and abundant computation, immersive media and geospatial web foundations for context-aware and ubiquitous computing. Mike is the frequent speaker on the topic of the geospatial web and has authored several papers, including one published in a special edition of the IEEE Journal on Pervasive Computing, “Data Management in the World-Wide Sensor Web.”