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IIS SA, Greece
MPEG-4 Authoring Meeting, ACTS Concertation Meeting Brussels-Belgium, 4 May 1999
Collaborative/Shared Collaborative/Shared Virtual Environment ToolsVirtual Environment Tools
OverviewOverview
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Authoring tools used in COVEN and VPARKAuthoring tools used in COVEN and VPARK
IIS SA, Greece
MPEG-4 Authoring Meeting, ACTS Concertation Meeting Brussels-Belgium, 4 May 1999
Authoring tools used in COVEN and VPARKAuthoring tools used in COVEN and VPARK
• Creation of a Virtual Amusement Park as an integration of several applications based on Distributed/Shared Virtual Environments.
• Creation of key attraction application scenes and possibility to future users for incorporation of their own applications.
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IIS SA, Greece
MPEG-4 Authoring Meeting, ACTS Concertation Meeting Brussels-Belgium, 4 May 1999
• Goal: Provision of a shared networked virtual environment and creates a Virtual Amusement Park. Creation of key attractions (such as Virtual Rock Concert, Dance, Theatre and Olympic Games).
• An attraction is a composition of autonomous actors and other objects. The user can direct all behaviors of actors, based on a timeline or driving events.
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Interface of the Attraction Builder Software Version 1.0 (ABS)
Authoring tools used in COVEN and VPARKAuthoring tools used in COVEN and VPARK
IIS SA, Greece
MPEG-4 Authoring Meeting, ACTS Concertation Meeting Brussels-Belgium, 4 May 1999
COVEN AC40 project Rationale
• Research into advanced VR techniques while simultaneously placing stable applications before user in trials.
• Separation between research investigation and application development
• Presentation of two distributed VR systems (1. Development and 2.Research) and provision of a clear migration path between them.
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Authoring tools used in COVEN and VPARKAuthoring tools used in COVEN and VPARK
IIS SA, Greece
MPEG-4 Authoring Meeting, ACTS Concertation Meeting Brussels-Belgium, 4 May 1999
Authoring tools used in COVEN and VPARKAuthoring tools used in COVEN and VPARK
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COVEN major independent work items (1)-extra work:
• development of a next generation version of VRML that has become known as X3D. • production of an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) version of VRML.
IIS SA, Greece
MPEG-4 Authoring Meeting, ACTS Concertation Meeting Brussels-Belgium, 4 May 1999
COVEN major independent work items (2)- extra work:
• XML that will be the lingua franca of the next round of 3dWeb standards.
• maintenance and support of a stable version of CosmoPlayer (WEB browser plugin to surf in 3D sites) that will support X3D.
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