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CONEXT
2008
ACM
13 years 6 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...
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
PowerUp: an accessible virtual world
PowerUp is a multi-player virtual world educational game with a broad set of accessibility features built in. This paper considers what features are necessary to make virtual worl...
Shari Trewin, Vicki L. Hanson, Mark Laff, Anna Cav...
ACMACE
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
MPML3D: agent authoring language for virtual worlds
This paper describes an authoring language for specifying communicative behavior and interaction of agents in virtual worlds. We focus on the popular three-dimensional (3D) multi-...
Sebastian Ullrich, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishi...
VW
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A 'Virtual Worlds' Theatre of Memory (Scheme for a Contemporary Museum)
Architecture experience of order and hierarchies in spatial event plays an important role in virtual environments notion of `presence'. Architecture monument urbane definition...
Bernardo Uribe Mendoza, Rodolfo Ramirez, Neslson C...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Emerging Standards in Virtual Fashion: An Analysis of Critical Strategies Used in Second Life Fashion Blogs
As virtual worlds evolve, so does the visual complexity and customizability of the avatars inside the worlds. In virtual worlds such as Second Life, prospering virtual fashion ind...
Jeffrey Bardzell, Tyler Pace, Laura Brunetti, Qian...
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
And the ringleaders were banned: an examination of protest in virtual worlds
Protest has made the jump between the offline and the online spaces and is frequently used in most virtual worlds available today. Despite the frequency of these protest actions i...
Bridget Marie Blodgett

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SI3D
1992
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
NPSNET: Constructing a 3D Virtual World
The development of 3D visual simulation systemson inexpensive, commercially available graphics workstations is occurring today and will be commonplace in the near future. Such sys...
Michael Zyda, David R. Pratt, James G. Monahan, Ka...
MHVR
1994
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13 years 8 months ago
The Development of a Virtual world for Learning Newtonian Mechanics
We are collaboratively designing "ScienceSpace," a collection of virtual worlds designed to explore the potential utility of physical immersion and multisensory perceptio...
Christopher J. Dede, Marilyn C. Salzman, R. Bowen ...
VRML
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
DWTP - An Internet Protocol for Shared Virtual Environments
VRML (the Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has brought 3D objects and virtual worlds to a large number of Internet users. While it provides a suitable basis for the platform ind...
Wolfgang Broll