This article describes the architecture of the "Museum of Pure Form", a virtual reality system where the user can interact, through the senses of touch and sight, with d...
Massimo Bergamasco, Antonio Frisoli, Federico Barb...
Smart avatars are virtual human representations controlled by real people. Given instructions interactively, smart avatars can act as autonomous or reactive agents. During a real-...
Rama Bindiganavale, William Schuler, Jan M. Allbec...
Due to the lack of a generic platform for location- and spatial-aware systems, many basic services have to be reimplemented in each application that uses spatial-awareness. A coop...
Fritz Hohl, Uwe Kubach, Alexander Leonhardi, Kurt ...
This paper presents design and architecture of the distributed virtual reality service (dvr) which allows collaboration-unaware VRML animations and simulations to be integrated in...
Recent research has shown that virtual agent able to express empathic emotions enhances human-machine interaction. In this paper, we present the capabilities that virtual agent sho...