April 2001
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Why is shape important ?
1. Shape for Interactions
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Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) will involve more
and more Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR) through
multimodal interfaces (3D dynamic vision, 3D sound, vocal recognition,
...)
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Electronic publishing is in its infancy. Most of the
products at this time are electronic duplications of paper books. Think
of « 3D Yellow Pages ».
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Computer Based Training (CBT), for police, rescue
and military forces, for maintenance teams working in hazardous
environments (e.g. nuclear stations), etc., requires to feed the
simulators with realistic, faithful and up-to-date 3D DB integrating
explicit models of the exteriors and interiors of buildings or
infrastructures where actions shall eventually take place.
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Tele-presence activities, like the navigation and
control of robots and tele-manipulators in adverse conditions,
hazardous sites, for tele-surgery.

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