City Rider Audio : car riding game with auditory support
PR Echtzeitgraphik
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Description
Auditory perception can play an important role for optimal interaction with a VE. In traffic scenarios auditory cues potentially provide critical information required to resolve dangerous situations. By means of carrying out user studies in a traffic simulator, we want investigate how spatialized sound can help users to improve their interactions. Results could be meaningful, for both sides, VE applications and traffic safety in real world. The scope of this internship is to prepare an interactive VE application, notably a kind of car riding game, which can be later configured for perceptual experiments concerning the role of auditory perception. In case of good results, we would appreciate the students to continue the work with a Diploma Thesis, where perceptual experiments are planned.Task
The basic application ''CityRider'' is already implemented based on Ogre3D. The main work will be to integrate high-quality sound rendering (e.g. with DirectSound 3D), which uses HRTF filtering for accurate spatialization of sound. Other tasks include upgrading to latest version of Ogre, implementing interfaces for new input devices (e.g. steering wheel) and engineering of game play and usability.Tools
There is already a small example car riding game in Ogre3D from which the work can start. This includes a small city model, a traffic simulation plugin, and physics interaction. Work will be carried out in C++ using the Ogre3D open source game engine. An example application with HRTF rendering is already implemented (good for learning). But we want to replace our current libraries with more stable solutions (e.g. DirectSound 3D)Requirements
VU Echtzeitgraphik, good C++ experience, experience with sound rendering APIs (DirectSound/OpenAl), interest in computer games, perception and usability engineering, previous Ogre3D experience is helpful
