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Title: virtual collaborative environments togetherness in VR


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virtual collaborative environmentstogetherness
in VR
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virtual worlds
  • a LONELY future for SAD people?
  • or
  • an opportunity to
  • meet people see exotic (virtual)
    places make friends

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things to do together
  • playing
  • learning
  • business
  • getting married !!

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collaborative virtual environments
  • virtual worlds
  • multi-participant
  • able to communicate (text, audio, video)
  • embodied - avatars

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MUDs
  • text based dungeons dragons
  • multi-user networked games
  • Doom!
  • soon (if not already) on Virgin Atlantic ...

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Cyberspaces
  • virtual graphical worlds
  • often 2.5 D - cardboard cutout
  • choose an avatar
  • off the shelf free, may pay for custom avatar
  • move
  • within and between different rooms/scenes/worlds
  • meet people
  • see others as their avatars, text based speech

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examples
  • Contact Consortium
  • http//www.ccon.org/
  • THE place for links
  • the Palace (previous slide)
  • one of the worlds there
  • virtual wedding !
  • uses AlphaWorlds

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pros and cons
  • Pros
  • great leveler
  • anonymity - accountability?
  • hides disability - email even better
  • cheaper than travelling
  • Cons
  • no body language
  • limited communication
  • SAD !!!

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Learning
  • virtual universities
  • traditional distance learning CDROM, video
  • email, bullitin boards
  • IRC/TCQ/chat
  • CuSeeMe, video conferencing
  • virtual worlds
  • virtual classroom video

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meetings and business
  • travel costs money
  • fares, time - 1000s per hour
  • timeliness essential
  • miss the strategic moment
  • video conferences
  • now common, special rooms etc.

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VR alternatives
  • virtual conference room
  • stay at your desk
  • real(ish) environment
  • table, whiteboard, computer (?!?)
  • shared synthesised environement
  • scientific visualisation
  • information visualisation
  • video

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who's there?
  • awareness
  • that people are there
  • what they are saying
  • what they are doing
  • modeling (for analysis and implementation)
  • nimbus - area where your presence is felt/heard
  • focus - area of attention
  • point of action - where you are doing things

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embodiments/avatars
  • geometric - blockies
  • efficient to render
  • texture map face
  • humanoid
  • full virtual body?

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viewpoints
Easy to read?
  • everyone sees the same?
  • text - difficult to read at an angle
    face on for everyone pointing?

Easy to read?
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of real and virtual ...
  • augmented reality
  • see others work projected on your desk!
  • desktop collaboration
  • video image on screen
  • computer tools
  • video of room/work in progress
  • Internet foyer ...

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Internet foyer
  • real foyer
  • large screen, camera
  • see virtual world on screen
  • virtual world
  • representation of web
  • see real foyer on virtual screen

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outside looking in
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inside looking out
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