: In the light of high profile governmental and international efforts to realise the knowledge society, I review the arguments made for and against it from a technology standpoint....
Computers and networks are increasingly able to support distributed collaborative multimedia applications. In fact, the growing interest in distance learning reflects the awarenes...
This paper introduces Portable Haptic Display (PHD), a novel platform-independent haptic rendering system that can be conveniently integrated into a large immersive virtual enviro...
Enkhtuvshin Dorjgotov, Seungmoon Choi, Steven R. D...
The idea of the 3D Web as a global scale Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) currently is very popular and a lot of research work is done in this field. In the course of the Hy...
Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Sch...
—Distance collaboration has long been a research area for distributed Virtual Environments (VEs). In these environments people interact with the technology and each other in a co...