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HICSS
2009
IEEE
107views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Emerging Standards in Virtual Fashion: An Analysis of Critical Strategies Used in Second Life Fashion Blogs
As virtual worlds evolve, so does the visual complexity and customizability of the avatars inside the worlds. In virtual worlds such as Second Life, prospering virtual fashion ind...
Jeffrey Bardzell, Tyler Pace, Laura Brunetti, Qian...
DCOSS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed Coalition Formation in Visual Sensor Networks: A Virtual Vision Approach
Abstract. We propose a distributed coalition formation strategy for collaborative sensing tasks in camera sensor networks. The proposed model supports taskdependent node selection ...
Faisal Qureshi, Demetri Terzopoulos
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
CANDT
2009
13 years 11 months ago
And the ringleaders were banned: an examination of protest in virtual worlds
Protest has made the jump between the offline and the online spaces and is frequently used in most virtual worlds available today. Despite the frequency of these protest actions i...
Bridget Marie Blodgett
MMM
2003
Springer
154views Multimedia» more  MMM 2003»
14 years 21 days ago
On Generating Virtual Worlds from Domain Ontologies
Virtual Worlds are computer-hosted visual environments that create the effect of an interactive three-dimensional world in which objects have a sense of spatial and physical prese...
Olga De Troyer, Wesley Bille, Raul Romero, Peter S...