Back in mid-July, we had a Taxacom thread on using remote video for
examining specimens. Here is a web pointer to something that might be of
interest to museum people.
Peter
Linkname: About Mechanical Gaze
URL: http://vive.cs.berkeley.edu/capek/about.html
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Excerpt from "about.html":
ABOUT MECHANICAL GAZE
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Statement
Robots provide us with a means to move around in, visualize, and
interact with a remote physical world. We have exploited these
physical properties coupled with the growing diversity of users on the
World Wide Web (WWW) to create a WWW based active telerobotic remote
environment browser. This browser, called Mechanical Gaze, allows
multiple remote WWW users to actively control up to six degrees of
freedom (DOF) of a robot arm with an attached camera to explore a real
remote environment. The initial environment is a collection of
physical museum exhibits which WWW users can view at various
positions, orientations, and levels of resolution.
etc., etc....
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