TY - CHAP
T1 - Free walk
T2 - Shared virtual space for casual meetings
AU - Nakanishi, Hideyuki
AU - Yoshida, Chikara
AU - Nishimura, Toshikazu
AU - Ishida, Toru
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2000 by CRC Press, LLC.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - In this chapter we present FreeWalk, a meeting environment for casual communication in a networked community, which provides a 3D common area where everyone can meet and talk freely. FreeWalk represents participants as 3D polygon pyramids, on which their live video is mapped. Voice volume remains proportional to the distance between sender and receiver. For evaluation, we compared communications in FreeWalk to a conventional desktop videoconferencing system and a face-to-face meeting.
AB - In this chapter we present FreeWalk, a meeting environment for casual communication in a networked community, which provides a 3D common area where everyone can meet and talk freely. FreeWalk represents participants as 3D polygon pyramids, on which their live video is mapped. Voice volume remains proportional to the distance between sender and receiver. For evaluation, we compared communications in FreeWalk to a conventional desktop videoconferencing system and a face-to-face meeting.
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M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:68249146743
SN - 084930086X
SN - 9781315893532
SP - 227
EP - 248
BT - Handbook of Internet Computing
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -