Presence in Shared Virtual Environments and Virtual Togetherness

  • Authors:
  • Nat Durlach;Mel Slater

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139, durlach@cbgrle.mit.edu;University College London

  • Venue:
  • Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This Forum article discusses the relationships among people, their avatars, and their virtual environment workstations in a shared virtual environment. It introduces the notion of togetherness, the sense of people being together in a shared space, which is the counterpart for shared VEs to the presence of an individual in a VE. The role of tactual communication is emphasized as being fundamental to togetherness.