ISBN-13: 9783639113570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 212 str.
ISBN-13: 9783639113570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 212 str.
Tele-collaboration technologies, such as video-conferencing and shared desktop systems, are used to enable a group of remote people to work together across a distance. We argue that, as of today, linking immersive virtual reality systems provides the closest resemblance of co-location, as remote people and shared objects are brought together in a shared social and spatial context. Balancing responsiveness with consistency, a key factor when employing tele-collaboration systems, however, becomes a great challenge due to the increased data load caused by continuous motion tracking in immersive systems. This book identifies issues in current systems by analysing the development of a highly collaborative benchmark application using arepresentative mature and well-known collaborativevirtual environment system and presents solutions forfuture advanced immersive tele-collaboration systems.This book is for software developers as well as forresearchers and students interested in the technicalissues of modern communication systems.