Abstract
“Virtual Roommates” is a mapping between loosely linked spaces, that allows users to overlay multiple physical and virtual scenes and populate them with physical and/or virtual characters. As the name implies, the Virtual Roommates concept provides continuous ambient presence for multiple disparate groups, similar to people sharing living conditions, but without the boundaries of real space.
This chapter contains updated and extended material, previously presented at the International Conferences on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT’08) [29] and Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE’08) [28].
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To avoid errors introduced by automatic speech recognition, user verbal input is manually typed-in in real time by a human operator behind the scene, using a Wizard-of-Oz approach.
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Precision Position Tracker. http://www.worldviz.com/products/ppt.
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Sherstyuk, A., Gavrilova, M. (2011). Virtual Roommates: Sampling and Reconstructing Presence in Multiple Shared Spaces. In: Furht, B. (eds) Handbook of Augmented Reality. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0064-6_9
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