The project will allow for undergraduate participation in advanced research for students in computer science, civil engineering, and architecture. The database includes three dimensional models of campus buildings and tunnels, archival construction documents, historical images, and noteworthy published articles. AcIS has donated server space and file maintenance to this effort. The head-worn display and support hardware for the Augmented Reality user interface have been purchased and researchers are writing and testing the user interface software. A working prototype of the campus navigation system has been constructed.
Images are available through here and here .
During the Spring 97 semester, software developed for the project was used by students at the Center for New Media to create an experimental 3D news story on the 1968 Columbia student revolt . Our augmented reality work received an Honorable Mention in the prestigious 1996 American Institute for Architectural Research Awards and was demonstrated at the ACM '97 conference in San Jose in March 1997.