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CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A hybrid cultural ecology: world of warcraft in China
We analyze online gaming as a site of collaboration in a digital-physical hybrid. We ground our analysis in findings from an ethnographic study of the online game World of Warcraf...
Silvia Lindtner, Bonnie A. Nardi, Yang Wang 0005, ...
RT
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Real-Time Rendering of Real World Environments
: One of the most important goals of interactive computer graphics is to allow a user to freely walk around a virtual recreation of a real environment that looks as real as the wor...
David K. McAllister, Lars S. Nyland, Voicu Popescu...
PG
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Interactive Visualization of Complex Real-World Light Sources
Interactive visualization of complex, real-world light sources has so far not been feasible. In this paper, we present an hardware accelerated direct lighting algorithm based on a...
Xavier Granier, Michael Goesele, Wolfgang Heidrich...
ACMDIS
2000
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Mapping the Physical World to Psychological Reality: Creating Synthetic Environments
The successful creation of telepresence and virtual environments requires a change in design paradigm. We must move away from attempts to recreate reality in its entirety toward t...
Ronald W. Noel, Claudia M. Hunter
MM
1993
ACM
104views Multimedia» more  MM 1993»
14 years 28 days ago
Panoramic Overviews for Navigating Real-World Scenes
This paper describes an interface which helps people maintain a sense of spatial context while navigating virtual real-world scenes. First, a single panoramic image of the entire ...
Laura Teodosio, Michael Mills