GEditor

The GEditor is a Glass tool which simplifies the design of graphical interfaces and their interaction with the Virtual Reality applications, freeing the designer from having to know all the details of the individual technologies, and to use PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant) as interaction devices. The interfaces generated are simple and intuitive, and can be used even by untrained users to interact with a distributed virtual environment. This solution requires no programming knowledge from the GUI designer.

This tool proposes a simple approach to GUIs. Instead of the usual set of widgets present in most GUI APIs, an image is used. The designer then defines hot spot areas on this image, which can be associated to events of the application. A complex GUI, with alphanumeric fields, menus, etc., reduces the feeling of immersion, since the user has to concentrate on the device instead of on the application.