Large Scale Collaborative Virtual Environments
Overview
Collaborative virtual environments are multi-user virtual realities which actively support communication and co-operation. This book addresses the theory, design, realisation and evaluation of such systems, with a particular emphasis on support for large numbers of distributed users. A broad approach is taken, which ranges from the sociology of interpersonal communication to the management of communication in distributed systems. The emphasis on multi-user environments distinguishes this book from the many general books on virtual reality which only deal with single-user systems. This book presents: models of multi-party awareness and interaction in space-based systems; detailed designs of two prototypes (MASSIVE-1 and MASSIVE-2); experiences with collaborative virtual environments created using these; and analyses of the corresponding network requirements. Many of these results and ideas are applicable to other systems and approaches.
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- ISBN-13: 9781447112228
- ISBN-10: 1447112229
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: September 2011
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.53 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.79 pounds
- Page Count: 229
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