Virtual Society: Collaboration in 3D Spaces on the Internet

  • Authors:
  • Rodger Lea;Yasuaki Honda;Kouichi Matsuda

  • Affiliations:
  • Sony Computer Science Laboratory Tokyo, Japan and Sony Architecture Labs, Tokyo, Japan E-mail: rodger@csl.sony.co.jp;Sony Computer Science Laboratory Tokyo, Japan and Sony Architecture Labs, Tokyo, Japan E-mail: rodger@csl.sony.co.jp;Sony Computer Science Laboratory Tokyo, Japan and Sony Architecture Labs, Tokyo, Japan E-mail: rodger@csl.sony.co.jp

  • Venue:
  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on groupware and the World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The Virtual Society (VS) project is a long term research initiativethat is investigating the evolution of the futureelectronic society. Our vision for this electronic societyis a shared 3D virtual world where users, from homes and offices, canexplore, interact and work. Our first implementation of aninfrastructure to support our investigation is known asCommunityPlace and has been developed to support large-scale shared 3D spaces onthe Internet using the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). Obviously, such an ambitious project cutsacross many different domains. In this paper we outline thegoals of the Virtual Society project, discuss the architecture andimplementation of CommunityPlace with particular emphasis on Internetrelated technologies such as VRML and present our views on the role ofVRML and the Internet to support large-scale shared 3D spaces.