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SG
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Framework Supporting General Object Interactions for Dynamic Virtual Worlds
Abstract. This work introduces a new interaction framework for dynamic virtual environments. The proposed system is designed to deal with all possible interactions in a virtual wor...
Pieter Jorissen, Wim Lamotte
VRCAI
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Explorative construction of virtual worlds: an interactive kernel approach
Despite steady research advances in many aspects of virtual reality, building and testing virtual worlds remains to be a very difficult process. Most virtual environments are stil...
Jinseok Seo, Gerard Jounghyun Kim
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Framing Virtual Law
Building on the work of games theorists and virtual world designers, this paper proposes a framework for understanding the real-virtual dichotomy in terms of a series of five fram...
Peter Edelmann
ICMB
2005
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
The Web of Augmented Physical Objects
This article investigates the growing complexity and connectivity between two former separated interaction spaces – the real and the virtual world. It is our attempt to augment ...
Thomas Nicolai, Florian Resatsch, Daniel Michelis
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Business Models for Online Communities: The Case of the Virtual Worlds Industry in China
The rapid growth of Internet usage has enabled many new online communities to develop. A particularly interesting phenomenon that has arisen through Internet communities is the vi...
Ian MacInnes, Lili Hu
NETGAMES
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Metazoa Ludens
— For better or worse, technological advancement has changed the world to the extent that at a professional level demands from the working executive required more hours either in...
Roger Thomas Kok Chuen Tan, James Keng Soon Teh, A...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Open experiments of mobile sightseeing support systems with shared virtual worlds
In this paper, we describe results from the experiments of a location-dependent shared virtual world system applied to sightseeing entertainment. This system can be used with GPSp...
Hiroyuki Tarumi, Kayo Yokoo, Shouji Nishimoto, Kaz...
CCECE
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Lazy Generation of Building Interiors in Realtime
Impenetrable doors are often quite common in virtual worlds. This is especially apparent in video games boasting large urban environments. Although there are often enterable build...
Evan Hahn, Prosenjit Bose, Anthony Whitehead
AINA
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Communication between Outdoor Field and Immersive Virtual Environment
This paper proposes the concept of the hybrid information space that integrates the information space seamlessly between the real world and the virtual world, and the prototype sy...
Tetsuro Ogi, Tetsuro Fujise
ICPADS
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Plug: Virtual Worlds for Millions of People
We propose the design of Plug, an application to find and keep contacts with friends within many inter-connected 3D virtual worlds. Users use an instant messenger (IM)-like inter...
Shun-Yun Hu, Jehn-Ruey Jiang