Authors:
Paulo N. M. Sampaio
1
;
Roberto Ivo C. de Freitas
2
and
Gonçalo Nuno P. Cardoso
2
Affiliations:
1
Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC); University of Madeira (UMA), Portugal
;
2
University of Madeira (UMA), Portugal
Keyword(s):
Virtual Reality, OGRE, Multimedia Documents.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Advanced User Interfaces
;
Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Environments
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Distributed Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality
;
Interactive Environments
;
Real-Time Graphics
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.