Towards an Integrated Technological Framework for Modelling Shared Virtual Spaces: Languages and Domotic Applications

2006 ◽  
pp. 474-483
Author(s):  
Iosu Azkue ◽  
Alfredo Pina ◽  
Michalis Vazirgiannis
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Shared Virtual Spaces

Evaluation of Personal Agent-Oriented Virtual Society—PAW

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kouichi Matsuda
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Personal Agent ◽  
Personal Agents ◽  
Shared Virtual Spaces ◽  
Environmental Infrastructure

In recent years, communication networks and computer technologies make it possible to create a cyberspace on the Internet. Recently, several 3-D shared virtual spaces and worlds have been realized in which users can share the same experience in a shared virtual environment. The next important step is to extend these environments into a virtual society. To realize a virtual society, it is important to obtain a large number of users in a virtual world and evaluate what kind of functions (especially, social functions) and interface should be supported. For this purpose, we constructed a personal agent-oriented virtual society called PAW (Personal Agent World) based on our Community Place system. PAW is a 3-D personal agent-oriented virtual society. PAW has improved upon past virtual spaces based on avatar and text communication by providing autonomous personal agents that interact with users plus a social and environmental infrastructure. Each user owns a personal agent that acts as user's partner and a mediator in the shared space. PAW was available on the Internet for eight months, during which it attracted hundreds of simultaneous user accesses and thousands of accumulated user accesses. In this paper, we give an architectural and design outline of PAW and the results of a questionnaire survey.

scholarly journals The Planetary Collegium: Master Plan for a Distributed Mixed Reality Campus

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Anders
Keyword(s):  
International Research ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
The World ◽  
Shared Virtual Spaces ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Digital Spaces

This paper describes the design for a Mixed Reality campusfor the Planetary Collegium. The Collegium is an international research network centered at Plymouth, U.K. Its plans call for seven sub-centers, or nodes, to be builtin different parts of the world. These nodes would be linked by shared virtual spaces and digital networks. The paper describes how the Collegium’s seeming contradictions (distributed/unified, simulated/physical, local/remote) can be reconciled. The resulting project is a mixed reality that transcends scales from global to local and, ultimately, to the constituent buildings and their digital spaces.

Function-based visualization and haptic rendering in shared virtual spaces

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 871-880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Wei ◽  
Alexei Sourin ◽  
Olga Sourina
Keyword(s):  
Haptic Rendering ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Shared Virtual Spaces

Mongolian gerbils learn to navigate in complex virtual spaces

2014 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 161-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Thurley ◽  
Josephine Henke ◽  
Joachim Hermann ◽  
Benedikt Ludwig ◽  
Christian Tatarau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mongolian Gerbils ◽  
Virtual Spaces
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