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Ever since man invented writing he has used text to store and distribute his thoughts. With the advent of computers and the Internet the delivery of these messages has become almost instant. Textual conversations can now be had regardless of location or distance.
Advances in computational power for 3D graphics are enabling Virtual Environments(VE) within which users can become increasingly more immersed. By opening these environments to other users such as initially through sharing these text conversations channels, we aim to extend the immersed experience into an online virtual community.
This paper examines work that brings textual communications into the VE, enabling interaction between the real and virtual worlds.
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Haffegee, A., Alexandrov, V. (2006). Textual Communication in Virtual Environments for Real World Interaction. In: Cham, TJ., Cai, J., Dorai, C., Rajan, D., Chua, TS., Chia, LT. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Modeling. MMM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4352. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69429-8_78
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