Camera Motion Control from a Java 3D Environment: Virtual Studio Application in Decorative Arts Museum Collections

The paper presents an implementation of virtual studio visualization tools in the decorative arts museum collections. Live DV video 2D images are embedded in a Java 3D environment (a 3D canvass). The virtual studio implemented includes navigation control of the real camera with a robot support controlled with a joystick. Navigation within the Java 3D virtual environment includes the real camera motion control and the video output. The real object is chroma-keyed and embedded in a virtual setting. Future steps of the work include: 1) development of complementary 3D content and specific navigation tools for the decorative arts collections exhibits. Implementation with the museum public in general and experimentation with the museum research community; and 2) the virtual studio implementation as part of a larger 3 folded display world: a "theatre of memory" applied to virtualized museum collections exhibits