GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-98-08
Title:
COOLVR: Implementing Audio in a Virtual Environment Toolkit
Authors:
Jarrell Pair
Rob Kooper
Abstract:
COOLVR (Complete Object Oriented Library for Virtual Reality) is a toolkit
currently being developed at the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability
Center (GVU) at Georgia Tech. The toolkit is written to allow programmers to
easily create virtual environments (VE's) which will compile cross platform.
Unlike most VE toolkits which focus effort primarily on the visual senses,
COOLVR aims to equally engage both the sense of sight and the sense of
hearing. One of the main design goals of the COOLVR toolkit is to give the
programmer an intuitive method to enrich the virtual world with auditory
cues. COOLVR uses a set of cross platform audio rendering modules to conduct
real time sound processing. By providing potential designers with the
capability of easily integrating spatial audio in a virtual world, a
heightened level of immersivity or presence can be achieved in COOLVR
environments. (This short paper was presented at the 1997 International
Conference on Auditory Display at Xerox PARC)
Keywords:
3D Audio, Virtual Environments, Software Toolkits
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