Interactive Mobile 3D Graphics for on-the-go visualization and walkthroughs

Abstract

Developing interactive 3D graphics for mobile Java applications is now a reality. Recently, the Mobile 3D Graphics (M3G) API (also known as JSR-184) was proposed to provide an efficient 3D graphics environment suitable for the J2ME platform. However, new services and applications using interactive 3D graphics, which have already achieved reasonable standards on the desktop, do not exist for resource-constrained handheld devices yet. In this work, a generic architecture for visualizing and navigating through 3D worlds in a mobile setting was designed and implemented. In particular, a 3D virtual tour application was developed based on the proposed architecture, where multiple mobile clients using M3G navigate through and interact with each other in a shared 3D space.