Some interactive multimedia applications in production engineering

The authors of this paper give a short summary on the research and development actions carried out during a Hungarian National Research and Development Program addressed as "Digital Factory". The project started in 2001 with the consortium consisting of three academic and two industrial partners, and has reached an end in 2004. This paper deals with one of the three main streams of R&D activities carried out when paper outlines the goals of the tasks, related to interactive multimedia and tele-presence based industrial applications. The basic research phase of the work was followed by applied research and development, while the concluding phase enabled industrial applications and test scenarios. The authors explain some details of their achievements.