WOW System: Graphic Module SBIR Phase I Presentation Team K6 Jeremy Fergus Jonathan Steed Xinzi Wu.

WOW System: Graphic ModuleSBIR Phase I Presentation

Team K6

Jeremy Fergus

Jonathan Steed

Xinzi Wu

Market Analysis

• Product: infrastructure for virtual environment exploration and interaction

• Target Markets:– computer game developers– travel agencies– real estate and rental agents– teaching software developers

How Big Is the Market?

• Real Estate Agents: 288,274 (in 1997)

Source: 1997 Economic Census: Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Report by the U.S. Bureau of Census

Our Estimation

Real Estate

Agents

Travel

Agencies

Computer

Game

Developers

Teaching

Software

Developers

Average #

Returned by

Search

Engines

163,506 202,890 163,366 177,329

Our

Estimation

10,000 -

100,000

15,000 -

150,000

10,000 -

100,000

10,000 -

100,000

Market Growth

• Real Estate Agents: 26% growth in the number of establishment and 70% increase in the revenue from 1992 to 1997

Sources: – 1992 Census of Financial, Insurance, and Real

Estate Industries Summary – Federal Reserve Board Dec 8, 1999 Report

Projected Sales Price

• Financial Goal: fully recover investment and earn a profit margin of 300%

• Investment: 8 programmers * $50,000 =

$400,000

• Potential Customers: 45,000 * 10% = 4,500

• Sales Price: $400,000 * 4 / 4,500 = $360

Case Study:Blizzard Entertainment

StarCraft and Brood War• 3 millions sales worldwide

• 1998’s biggest selling computer game

Battle.net• More than 4.7 million games have

been played over Battle.net with peak hours topping more than 50,000 players competing simultaneously.

• 800% growth

Blizzard Entertainment Press Releases Feb 4, 1999 & Oct 21, 1999

Case Study:Impressions Software

• Most profitable game division of Havas Interactive

• $20 million in profits in 1998 (more than Blizzard)

• Has only 40 employees, meaning it averaged $500,000 in profits per employee

Gamecenter.com June 04, 1999

Top 10 Games of 19991. MP Roller Coaster Tycoon

2. Sim City 3000

3. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

4. Microsoft Age Of Empires II: Age Of Kings

5. Starcraft

6. Half-Life

7. Command & Conquer 2: Tiberian Sun

8. Microsoft Flight Simulator

9. Frogger

10. Baldur's Gate

©2000 Strategy Plus, Inc.

High-Level Design:Major System Components

• XML Parser<object id="94"> <loc x="9" y="14" /> <geometry> <loc x="1" y="1"> <loc x="-1" y="1"> <loc x="-1" y="-1"> <loc x="1" y="-1"> </geometry> <attribute name="type" value="wagon" /> <attribute name="image" value="http://www.cs.utah.edu/wagon.gif" /> </object>

Object1.id = 94;Object1.name = "wagon";Object1.image = http://www.cs.utah.edu/wagon.gif";Object1.geometry[ ] = {1,1,0,-1,1,0,-1,-1,0,1,-1,0};Object1.location[ ] = { 9,14,0};

High-Level Design:Major System Components

• Scene Structure Builder

Map

Area1 Area2

Tree Box

Key

Note that each node in the tree should contain or refer to its geometry, location, and appearance (e.g., color or bitmap file).

High-Level Design:Major System Components

• Graphic Rendering Engine

Since we have decided to develop the graphic module with Java 3D, the graphic rendering engine will be implemented using the Java3D API. The engine will take the Scene Graph built in the previous step and render this scene to the screen.

Data Flow Among Components

1. The XML parser interactionInput: XML messages transmitted from the WOW server engine.Output: Abstract data structure representing the scene to be built.

2. Scene Structure BuilderInput: Abstract data structure representing the scene to be built.Output: Scene Graph Object in terms of Java3D.

3. Graphic Rendering EngineInput: Java3D Scene Graph ObjectOutput: Rendered scene to screen

System Requirements

• The graphics engine will run on any machine with an up to date Java Virtual Machine and a network connection to the server engine.

Display: Screen Layout(0,0)

(xSize, ySize)