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PUC
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Touch-Space: Mixed Reality Game Space Based on Ubiquitous, Tangible, and Social Computing
: This paper presents a novel computer entertainment system which recaptures human touch and physical interaction with the real-world environment as essential elements of the game ...
Adrian David Cheok, Xubo Yang, Zhiying Zhou, Mark ...
VR
2002
IEEE
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14 years 21 days ago
An Extensible Event-Based Infrastructure for Networked Virtual Worlds
Many VR platforms emphasize extensibility to support as wide a range of applications as possible. The current trend is to move this extensibility to lower levels of the system to ...
Jim Purbrick, Chris Greenhalgh
FUNGAMES
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Pervasive Mobile Games - A New Mindset for Players and Developers
Pervasive games are an emerging new game genre, which includes context information as an integral part of the game. These games differ from traditional games in that they expand sp...
Hannu Korhonen, Hannamari Saarenpää, Jan...
DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The attack of the backstories (and why they won't win)
This essay adopts a formal model of play as semiosis [18] to explore the often dysfunctional role of backstories within computer game design and play. Within this model, backstori...
David Myers
VW
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A 'Virtual Worlds' Theatre of Memory (Scheme for a Contemporary Museum)
Architecture experience of order and hierarchies in spatial event plays an important role in virtual environments notion of `presence'. Architecture monument urbane definition...
Bernardo Uribe Mendoza, Rodolfo Ramirez, Neslson C...