The idea of the 3D Web as a global scale Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) currently is very popular and a lot of research work is done in this field. In the course of the Hy...
Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Sch...
Abstract-- In this paper we propose a distributed authentication service for peer-to-peer (P2P) based massively multiuser virtual environments. Such a service is necessary to provi...
Arno Wacker, Gregor Schiele, Sebastian Schuster, T...
This paper investigates the ethics of the appearance and behavior of avatars in massively multi-user online communities, in particular, avatars created for virtual business intera...
Nowadays multi-user VR systems are mostly aimed to social interaction, whereas exploitation of shared virtual environment for educational purposes has been mainly left aside. We i...
We describe a design for a collaborative Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to support massively multi-user and multi-institutional learning communities. This architecture extends...