[AG-TECH] "cyborg" PIG ?

[Paul Salva]

Actually, using a laptop PIG and a proxy server much like the VVP, this 
would work pretty well to address your issue of  portability.  It's only 
one stream but that's all you really need at that point.

I'm working with a company called Complete AV Solutions on a similar 
prototype for the Skokie Fire Department where a fire fighter can ware a 
computer with the display in his/her helmet where we can stream an image 
of a floor plan or a 360 degree stitched JPG image.  It's called 
Emergency Response Mapping.  This will soon be using some components of 
the VVP from EVL and it will receive VGA and MPEG video and audio 
streams from the NCast Telepresenter M2.

Perhaps we'll connect a camera and mic and send streams back to the AG - 
Hmmm...

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Ivan R. Judson wrote:

>I'd love to see a portable platform like this worked on; given the web
>services core of AG2 it would be interesting to do a native PocketPC version
>of the software and carry around a ipaq :-)
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
>>[mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Ti Leggett
>>Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 6:31 PM
>>To: Andrew Daviel
>>Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>>Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] "cyborg" PIG ?
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>>Theoretically, it could work, but the AG is a little more 
>>demanding than your average point-to-point video 
>>conferencing. It's both CPU and network intensive. People 
>>have run the PIG software on laptops with decent results, but 
>>as soon as more than 2 or 3 streams start coming in, it 
>>either bogs down the network or CPU or both. I would see 
>>wireless net as being the bottleneck if it's 802.11b. You 
>>might squeak by if you're running 802.11a. Just my thoughts. 
>>Anyone else?
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>>On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 17:38, Andrew Daviel wrote:
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>>>Idly curious again, I wondered if anyone has made a "Borg" type PIG 
>>>using something like the Charmed wearable computer, or even a 
>>>collection of hardware on a laptop with a wireless card.
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>>>The idea being to send some hapless guy down the hole with the 
>>>flashlight
>>>while the "experts" sit in comfort in the AG room and offer 
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>>"advice"  :-)
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>>>Or more probably just show something on AG that is too big to be 
>>>moved.
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>>>http://www.charmed.com/products/catalog/catalog.php
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>>>(Steven Mann have been doing this for years, going into the grocery 
>>>store while his wife tells him which apples to buy, but I'm 
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>>not sure 
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>>>what software he uses)
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>>-- 
>>Ti Leggett <leggett at mcs.anl.gov>
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