virtual worlds
Virtual machines for virtual worlds
... Virtual worlds are 3D environments which enable users to interact through the proxy of ...in virtual worlds and users can introduce their own goals and rules of ...jects. Virtual ...
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Situated learning in virtual simulations: Researching the authentic dimension in virtual worlds
... Further coding of the authenticity/realism theme revealed both positive factors that added to the sense of authenticity and negative factors that detracted from it. Nine of the 13 factors were positive, with the ...
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Requirements for educational support tools in Virtual Worlds
... in Virtual Worlds will not necessarily be for aiding the development of coding, but the generic requirements are undoubtedly similar (see later in ...as virtual reality glove sets, joysticks, 3D ...
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3D virtual worlds as environments for literacy learning
... the virtual world and distributed a short evaluative questionnaire to all ten (seven were ...which virtual worlds could be used to promote new literacies in the classroom by constructing what Stake ...
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Urban beaches, virtual worlds and 'the end of tourism'
... in virtual worlds reveals further parallels with genuine tourism production and consumption in respect of, firstly, the assorted images used to promote them in print and online (including in-game) ...
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Building Virtual Worlds with the Big Bang Model
... In this paper we report our applications of force- directed layout techniques to the generation of 3D virtual worlds suitable for our visualisation projects. A modification introducing a “big-bang” phase is ...
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Virtual worlds enabling distributed collaboration
... Over time, technological development has created a multitude of CMC technologies for distributed collaboration ranging from improvements in mobile technologies to virtual worlds (VWs). The pros, cons and ...
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Trust and Trustworthiness in Anonymous Virtual Worlds
... in virtual worlds is perhaps not very surprising, because many users of virtual worlds report that they enjoy being someone else and enjoy acting in ways ...
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WorldFinder: A tool for finding Virtual Worlds
... In the likely event that hundreds, if not thousands, of templates are created, World Finder makes use of categories to provide some form of organisation. When a template is created the user assigns it to a category; this ...
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Envisioning the Educational Possibilities of User-Created Virtual Worlds
... Educational games and simulations can engage students in higher-level cognitive thinking, such as interpreting, analyzing, discovering, evaluating, acting, and problem solving. Recent technical advances in multiplayer, ...
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Mapping cyberspace: visualising, analysing and exploring virtual worlds
... Active Worlds Browser allows us to access 3D VRML worlds where we can roam through different landscape, teleport from place to place and chat to other ...Most worlds have a selection of avatars for ...
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The BladeMistress Corpus: From Talk to Action in Virtual Worlds
... Virtual Worlds (VW) are online environments where people come together to interact and perform various tasks. The chat transcripts of interactions in VWs pose unique opportunities and challenges for ...
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The Virtual Worlds Project: geological mapping and field skills
... The Virtual Worlds Project (Geological Mapping Skills) has created a virtual training environment (VTE) that provides a virtual space between the class room and the field in which these skills ...
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Virtual worlds in tertiary education: an Australasian perspective [editorial]
... New Zealand higher education institutions, as well as an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)-funded project on the use of media-rich synchronous technologies (including but not limited to virtual ...
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Physically Motivated Environmental Sound Synthesis for Virtual Worlds
... Copyright © 2010 Dylan Menzies. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
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Virtual Worlds and the 3D Web – time for convergence?
... Multi-User Virtual Worlds (MUVW) such as Open Wonderland and OpenSim have proved to be fruitful platforms for innovative educational prac- tice, supporting exploratory learning and generating true ...of ...
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Virtual worlds: a new environment for constructionist learning
... of virtual worlds; embodying users, facilitating social interaction and supporting a sense of immersion in a shared ...the virtual world or provide new ...
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Designing collaboration experiences for 3D virtual worlds
... of virtual world ...particular: virtual embodiment and configurable ...in virtual worlds, three different approaches for designing collaboration tasks were empirically ...a virtual ...
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Stranger than Fiction : Taxing Virtual Worlds
... of virtual items or currency in a structured game like WoW, where real-money trades are prohib- ited but nonetheless occur? To answer these questions, this Part dis- cusses the tax law applicable to receipts of ...
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Techniques for handling scale and distribution in virtual worlds
... [9] Karl O'Connell, Vinny Cahill, Andrew Condon, Stephen McGerty, Gradimir Starovic, and Brendan Tangney. The VOID shell: A toolkit for the development of distributed video games and virtual worlds. In ...
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