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ECSCW
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Common Ground and Small Group Interaction in Large Virtual World Gatherings
Virtual worlds can allow conversational participants to achieve common ground in situations where the information volume and need for clarification is low. We argue in favor of thi...
N. Sadat Shami, Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Places in spaces: common ground in virtual worlds
Virtual worlds can allow conversational participants to achieve common ground in situations where the information volume and need for clarification is low. We argue in favor of th...
N. Sadat Shami, Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
PDPTA
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Solipsis: A Massively Multi-Participant Virtual World
—This paper presents a massively shared virtual reality system based on a network of peers. It does not rely on any server nor on IP multicast, and intends to be scalable to an u...
Joaquín Keller, Gwendal Simon
CORR
2008
Springer
98views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
The Physical World as a Virtual Reality
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...
Brian Whitworth
VR
2000
IEEE
138views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2000»
13 years 12 months ago
Development of Ground Surface Simulator for Tel-E-Merge System
In the paper, we describe a series of stages in the development of a new virtual locomotion device designed to enhance remote, interpersonal communications. The latest system, cal...
Haruo Noma, Toshiaki Sugihara, Tsutomu Miyasato