EMBEDDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT WITHIN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - The OGRE Approach

Paulo N. M. Sampaio, Roberto Ivo C. de Freitas, Gonçalo Nuno P. Cardoso

2008

Abstract

Most of the tools and languages for modeling Virtual Reality environments, such as VRML, X3D, Java3D, etc. do not provide means of describing the synchronized presentation of multimedia content inside these environments. Multimedia has demonstrated its capabilities of motivating users and capturing their attention, which is an interesting characteristic when we want to provide a higher degree of immersion inside Virtual Reality applications. This paper presents a robust and generic solution for the integrated presentation of different kinds of media objects inside virtual environments based on the Graphical Engine OGRE.

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N. M. Sampaio P., Ivo C. de Freitas R. and Nuno P. Cardoso G. (2008). EMBEDDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT WITHIN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - The OGRE Approach . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: MCVE, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-20-3, pages 524-531. DOI: 10.5220/0001098905240531


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@conference{mcve08,
author={Paulo N. M. Sampaio and Roberto Ivo C. de Freitas and Gonçalo Nuno P. Cardoso},
title={EMBEDDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT WITHIN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - The OGRE Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: MCVE, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={524-531},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001098905240531},
isbn={978-989-8111-20-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: MCVE, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - EMBEDDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT WITHIN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - The OGRE Approach
SN - 978-989-8111-20-3
AU - N. M. Sampaio P.
AU - Ivo C. de Freitas R.
AU - Nuno P. Cardoso G.
PY - 2008
SP - 524
EP - 531
DO - 10.5220/0001098905240531