International Business Machines Corporation

Ronan Bohan

Davide Pasetto

John Hamill

Albert Akhriev

Karol W Lynch

A method and system for enabling interaction with unmodified 3D graphics applications using face-tracking. The method includes determining a position of a viewer using face-tracking component and transforming a viewer's position to application coordinates. The application coordinates are passed to a wrapper library around a 3D graphics application's library. The 3D graphic application's instruction stream is altered to display 3D graphics on a display with scenes rendered as seen from the viewer's position. The 3D graphics application is forced to load a wrapper library which overloads functions of the underlying 3D graphics application library. In this way, the 3D graphics application can be an existing unmodified 3D graphics application provided on a computer system.

Addition of immersive interaction capabilities to otherwise unmodified 3D graphics applications

A method and system are provided for providing hardware accelerated graphics for network enabled applications. The method includes providing a network enabled application on a host, the application requiring hardware accelerated graphics not provided on the host; providing a 3D library wrapper at the host for connection to a broker of 3D graphics rendering resources. The broker receives a request for 3D graphics rendering resources, and evaluates available rendering resources and allocates a selected 3D graphics rendering resource to the 3D library wrapper, in order to return final 2D rendered images to a client. The network enabled application may execute on a virtual machine on the host or on a terminal services session on the host and is accessed by a remote client.

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Mulhuddart, Ireland

Ronan Bohan