Advanced Immersive Tele-Collaboration : Supporting Closely Coupled Collaboration around Shared Objects in Immersive Virtual Environments

ISBN-13: 9783639113570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 212 str.

Robin Wolff

Opis

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.

O autorze

Dr Robin Wolff has been working in the field of Virtual Reality
for more than 7 years. He started his work at the University of
Reading, UK, in 2001 and later joined the University of Salford
where he received his PhD in 2007 and worked as Technical
Director and Senior Research Fellow. In 2009, he joined Tampere
University of Technology, Finland.