Tele-immersive collaborative virtual environment for intuitive interpretation

The purpose of tele-immersive collaboration is to enable people in separate locations to work together effectively by the Virtual Reality (VR) technology facilitating the human intuitive insight and interpretation. Consequently, it is important to cogitate with figures and characters as well as voice communication in Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE). In this paper, we constructed tele-immersive CVE with annotation capability and free-hand drawing of characters and figures into Immersive Projection Technology (IPT) environment. In addition, participants from remote sites connected over a Wide Area Network (WAN) were enabled to interact with each other by sharing annotations via a PDA application. Moreover, we developed applications for scientific visualization and, for intellectual work based on KJ Method inside a tele-immersive CVE. From these results, we are able to maintain essential information for thinking by making annotation on IPT environment, and have proved the system can support intuitive understanding in remote collaborative work. This work was presented in part at the 12th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, January 25–27, 2007     

基于远程沉浸的协同式虚拟学习环境模型研究

针对现有虚拟学习环境沉浸感不强,分布式交互能力差的不足,提出了一个远程沉浸基础上的协同虚拟学习环境模型,给出了系统实施的关键技术.该模型以网格为中间件平台,融合分布式、协同式思想.模型采用集中分布式网络架构,通过WEB服务标准开发资源管理和异地同步通信程序,把不同地理位置上分布的虚拟学习子系统通过网格平台整合到一起,为不同地域、不同机构提供学习和合作环境.