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Transactions on Edutainment II pp 282–298Cite as

A 3D Campus on the Internet – A Networked Mixed Reality Environment

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This paper presents a study of networking the mobile augmented reality system with the conventional networked virtual environment and it is called the networked mixed reality environment in this study. The 3D virtual campus is an ongoing project aiming to explore the techniques how to design such a networked mixed reality environment. This study starts with investigating the temporal and spatial synchronization issues between the mobile computing system and the conventional networked virtual reality system. The proposed solutions are then followed by a demonstration prototyping system, called Multiplayer Mobile Mixed Reality(M3R) system. The tips of implementing the M3R system are presented in the end. The 3D virtual campus project successfully demonstrates the promise of building a pervasive virtual environment between the live player and the virtual player. Inspired by the preliminary success, further experiments and application are currently being examined.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taipei University, San Shia, Taipei, 237, Taiwan

    Jiung-yao Huang & Kun-Hang Lee

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Ching Yun University, 229 Chien-Hsin Road, Jung-Li, Taoyuan County, 320, Taiwan

    Ming-Chih Tung

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui, 251, Taiwan

    Huan-Chao Keh & Ji-jen Wu

  4. Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan County, 32001, Taiwan

    Chung-Hsien Tsai

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  1. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Adrian David Cheok

  3. Media Education and Visualization Group, University of Education, Leibnizstr. 3, 88250, Weingarten, Germany

    Wolfgang Müller

  4. School of Computing, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

    Abdennour El Rhalibi

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Huang, Jy., Tung, MC., Keh, HC., Wu, Jj., Lee, KH., Tsai, CH. (2009). A 3D Campus on the Internet – A Networked Mixed Reality Environment. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A.D., Müller, W., Rhalibi, A.E. (eds) Transactions on Edutainment II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5660. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03270-7_19

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