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By Carlos Sterling - Feb 03 - Present
Committee: Dr. Tulio Sulbaran (Chair), Prof. Doris Kemp
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| Project Objective |
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The primary goal of this paper is to describe a
project that focused on the creation of an interface that allows voice
communication among VR users. This project augments the existing text-chat
capabilities in VR environments by making the interaction among users more
natural. The migration from text-chat to
a more natural communication such as voice is a developing trend on the
Internet. Jack Woodall supports this with the statement that “Sound & image
are the natural means of human communication, not writing. Therefore voice
should eventually replace text on the Internet” [Healthnet Medical Discussion
1999]. Additionally, the author believes
that this interface will foster interaction among VR Users. The development of voice communications in VR
has the overall effect of being a training tool in
everyday situations, which will eliminate the users need to convert their
thoughts into text format.
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| Abstract |
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Current users
of Virtual Reality (VR) Environments distributed over the
Internet, communicate among themselves using text-chat.
Text-chat is a slow communication process, which distracts the
users from their main task in the VR environment. The primary
goal of this paper is to describe a project that focused on the
creation of an interface that allows voice communication among
VR users. The resulting interface from this project allows
anyone using a VR Environment over the Internet to logon to a
voice communications server from anywhere in the world. The
users are able to communicate without having to install new
software on their computer. This type of communication is
expected to foster people’s abilities to share their ideas and
solutions to problems in research, education, and/or
professional environments anywhere on earth where there’s a
computer with Internet access.
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Last Modification:
Thursday July 28, 2005 04:00 PM
Originally Developed by: Dr. Tulio Sulbaran - Email:
Tulio.Sulbaran@usm.edu
- Nov 2004
The University of Southern Mississippi. AA/EOE/ADAI
http://www.icee.usm.edu