SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLABORATIVE INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION OF 3D DATA SETS OVER A NETWORK ('DEXTRONET')

摘要

The present invention relates to the interactive visualisation of 3D data sets and more particularly to the collaborative interactive visualisation of one or more 3D data sets by multiple parties over a network. The suggested system being configured to receive, over a communications link, positional data for one or more remote probes of one or more remote machines, to generate, for display on a local display, a combined 3D scene comprising one remote probe and the 3D image, to manipulate the 3D image by a user local to the apparatus, and send, over a communications link, data regarding said manipulations by said user local to the apparatus to allow the remote machine to display a combined 3D scene comprising an image of the local probe performing manipulations on said 3D image.