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HCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Acquiring a Physical World and Serving Its Mirror World Simultaneously
A mirror world, which is a virtual space modeling a physical space, attracts enormous interests from VR community recently. Various applications such as Second Life, Google Earth a...
Sengpyo Hong, Jong-gil Ahn, Heedong Ko, Jinwook Ki...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Virtual world grammar
Hybrid systems such as those that combine 3D virtual worlds and organization based multiagent systems add new visual and communication features for multi-user applications. The des...
Tomas Trescak, Marc Esteva, Inmaculada Rodrí...
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Intelligent Crawling in Virtual Worlds
—We present an intelligent agent crawler designed to collect user-generated content in Second Life and related virtual worlds. The agents navigate autonomously through the world ...
Josh Eno, Susan Gauch, Craig W. Thompson
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Body and mind: a study of avatar personalization in three virtual worlds
An increasingly large number of users connect to virtual worlds on a regular basis to conduct activities ranging from gaming to business meetings. In all these worlds, users proje...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ming-Hui Wen, Nicholas Yee, Gr...
CORR
2008
Springer
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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