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VW
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Framework to Dynamically Manage Distributed Virtual Environments
Abstract. In this paper, we present the project Urbi et Orbi, a framework to dynamically manage distributed virtual environments (DVEs). This framework relies on a dedicated script...
Yoann Fabre, Guillaume Pitel, Laurent Soubrevilla,...
IWC
2002
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15 years 6 months ago
Trust in information sources: seeking information from people, documents, and virtual agents
The notion of trust has been virtually absent from most work on how people assess and choose their information sources. Based on two empirical cases this study shows that software ...
Morten Hertzum, Hans H. K. Andersen, Verner Anders...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
P2P Second Life: Experimental Validation Using Kad
: Applications such as Second Life require massive deployment of servers worldwide to support a large number of users. We investigate experimentally how Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communic...
Matteo Varvello, C. Diout, Ernst W. Biersack
CONEXT
2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Is there life in Second Life?
Abstract: Social virtual worlds such as Second Life are digital representations of the real world where human-controlled avatars evolve and interact through social activities. Unde...
Matteo Varvello, Fabio Picconi, Christophe Diot, E...
CAPTECH
1998
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Robust Human-Silhouette Extraction Technique for Interactive Virtual Environments
In this paper, we present a method for robustly extracting the silhouette form of the participant within an interactive environment. The approach overcomes the inherent problems as...
James W. Davis, Aaron F. Bobick