Portals: Aiding Navigation in Virtual Museums

Kotziampasis, Ioannis; Sidwell, Nathan; Chalmers, Alan

Portals: Aiding Navigation in Virtual Museums

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Date

2003

Authors

Kotziampasis, Ioannis
Sidwell, Nathan
Chalmers, Alan

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Distributed virtual environments offer an efficient way for a number of users to create complex 3D virtual worlds. However, navigation within these virtual environments can be significantly hampered by the lack of visibility between parts of the world, particularly when these parts are on different machines. This paper describes the use of portals to connect distributed virtual archaeological environments in such a way that the interconnected virtual environment will be visible from different machines in an efficient manner. A case study shows how a virtual museum can benefit from such a system.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/VAST/VAST03/149-154
,
booktitle = {The 4th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage
},
editor = {David Arnold and Alan Chalmers and Franco Niccolucci
},
title = {{Portals: Aiding Navigation in Virtual Museums
}},
author = {Kotziampasis, Ioannis and 
Sidwell, Nathan and 
Chalmers, Alan
},
year = {2003
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1811-864X
},
ISBN = {3-905673-08-8
},
DOI = {/10.2312/VAST/VAST03/149-154
}
}