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- Title
Multi-user mixed reality system ‘Gulliver’s World’: a case study on collaborative edutainment at the intersection of material and virtual worlds.
- Authors
Lindinger, Christopher; Haring, Roland; Hörtner, Horst; Kuka, Daniela; Kato, Hirokazu
- Abstract
This case study is about ‘Gulliver’s World’, a multi-user mixed reality environment that functions simultaneously as interactive edutainment platform and learning environment as well as flexible infrastructure for the expansion of mixed reality environments via innovations in technology and media art. As an exhibition project, the installation is characterized by a nonlinear exhibition concept that activates interaction between individual users and different modes of virtual reality as well as collaboration among the users themselves. At seven workstations, people of all age groups range along the Reality–Virtuality continuum while collaboratively creating 3D worlds. Results of these creation activities are interactive worlds at the nexus of theatre, digital film production and game environment. As a research project, ‘Gulliver’s World’ features multilevel infrastructure with exemplary content in which the latest insights and models to emerge from HCI research as well as concepts of mixed reality and virtual environments and their supporting technology are brought together and developed further.
- Subjects
SHARED virtual environments; VIRTUAL reality; COMPUTER simulation; ELECTROMECHANICAL analogies; MATHEMATICAL models; SIMULATION methods &; models
- Publication
Virtual Reality, 2006, Vol 10, Issue 2, p109
- ISSN
1359-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10055-006-0047-1