“PlaceWorld: An Integration of Shared Virtual Worlds” by Cook and Pettifer
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- Virtual Reality
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- PlaceWorld: An Integration of Shared Virtual Worlds
Session/Category Title: Virtual Landscapes
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Abstract:
PlaceWorld is the result of collaboration between artists, social and computer scientists undertaken as part of the eSCAPE Project (ESPRIT 25377, 1997-2000), the aim of which was to inform the development of future large scale shared and social virtual environments. Realized as a distributed multi-user VE capable of running over wide-area networks, PlaceWorld has three goals: first, to act as a coherent metaphor for browsing and experiencing disparate electronic art installations and virtual artefacts; second, to be an evolving social environment in its own right; and third, to provide a persistent software architecture in which non-trivial virtual artifacts may be dynamically created and integrated.
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