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CSCWD
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Educational technology for collaborative virtual environments
3D information systems for education must be investigated and adopted for a more involving form of learning. It is in this context that we propose the use of Second Life as an env...
Marcio Cunha, Alberto Barbosa Raposo, Hugo Fuks
GIS
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
GISolve toolkit: advancing GIS through cyberinfrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure integrates information and communication technologies to enable high-performance, distributed, and collaborative knowledge discovery, and promises to revolutio...
Shaowen Wang
ICDE
1998
IEEE
180views Database» more  ICDE 1998»
15 years 11 months ago
The Alps at Your Fingertips: Virtual Reality and Geoinformation Systems
We advocate a desktop virtual reality (VR) interface to a geographic information system (GIS). The navigational capability to explore large topographic scenes is a powerful metaph...
Renato Pajarola, Thomas Ohler, Peter Stucki, Korne...
VRML
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Automatic derivation of electronic maps from X3D/VRML worlds
Maps of physical environments and geographical areas are pervasively exploited in many human activities. Electronic maps of virtual worlds have been studied and proven to be usefu...
Lucio Ieronutti, Roberto Ranon, Luca Chittaro
VMV
2001
84views Visualization» more  VMV 2001»
14 years 11 months ago
Multi-step View Synthesis with Occlusion Handling
Virtual view synthesis is essential for 3D teleconference systems like VIRTUE, which utilizes the motion parallax cue. In this paper we propose a multi-step view synthesis algorit...
Bang Jun Lei, Emile A. Hendriks