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HCI
2009
14 years 9 months ago
Acquiring a Physical World and Serving Its Mirror World Simultaneously
A mirror world, which is a virtual space modeling a physical space, attracts enormous interests from VR community recently. Various applications such as Second Life, Google Earth a...
Sengpyo Hong, Jong-gil Ahn, Heedong Ko, Jinwook Ki...
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 12 months ago
Virtual world grammar
Hybrid systems such as those that combine 3D virtual worlds and organization based multiagent systems add new visual and communication features for multi-user applications. The des...
Tomas Trescak, Marc Esteva, Inmaculada Rodrí...
IAT
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Intelligent Crawling in Virtual Worlds
—We present an intelligent agent crawler designed to collect user-generated content in Second Life and related virtual worlds. The agents navigate autonomously through the world ...
Josh Eno, Susan Gauch, Craig W. Thompson
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 10 days ago
Body and mind: a study of avatar personalization in three virtual worlds
An increasingly large number of users connect to virtual worlds on a regular basis to conduct activities ranging from gaming to business meetings. In all these worlds, users proje...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ming-Hui Wen, Nicholas Yee, Gr...
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CORR
2008
Springer
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14 years 12 months ago
The Physical World as a Virtual Reality
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...
Brian Whitworth