Virtual Worlds: First International Conference, VW’98 Paris, France, July 1–3, 1998 Proceedings

Real Face Communication in a Virtual World....Pages 1-13
Animated Impostors for Real-Time Display of Numerous Virtual Humans....Pages 14-28
Can We Define Virtual Reality? The M R IC Model....Pages 29-41
Distortion in Distributed Virtual Environments....Pages 42-48
VRML Based Behaviour Database Editor....Pages 49-62
The Scan&Track Virtual Environment....Pages 63-80
CyberGlass: Vision-Based VRML2 Navigator....Pages 81-87
Work Task Analysis and Selection of Interaction Devices in Virtual Environments....Pages 88-96
Effect of Stereoscopic Viewing on Human Tracking Performance in Dynamic Virtual Environments....Pages 97-106
Interactive Movie: A Virtual World with Narratives....Pages 107-116
Real-Image-Based Virtual Studio....Pages 117-122
Pop-Out Videos....Pages 123-128
Color Segmentation and Color Correction Using Lighting and White Balance Shifts....Pages 129-142
Designing Emergence in Animated Artificial Life Worlds....Pages 143-155
ALife Meets Web: Lessons Learned....Pages 156-167
Information Flocking: Data Visualisation in Virtual Worlds Using Emergent Behaviours....Pages 168-176
Nerve Garden: A Public Terrarium in Cyberspace....Pages 177-185
A Two Dimensional Virtual World to Explain the Genetic Code Structure?....Pages 186-192
Grounding Agents in EMud Artificial Worlds....Pages 193-204
Towards Virtual Experiment Laboratories: How Multi-Agent Simulations Can Cope with Multiple Scales of Analysis and Viewpoints....Pages 205-217
A Model for the Evolution of Environments....Pages 218-228
ARéVi: A Virtual Reality Multiagent Platform....Pages 229-240
Investigating the Complex with Virtual Soccer....Pages 241-253
Webots: Symbiosis Between Virtual and Real Mobile Robots....Pages 254-263
Vision Sensors on the Webots Simulator....Pages 264-273
Grounding Virtual Worlds in Reality....Pages 274-285
Growing Virtual Communities in 3D Meeting Spaces....Pages 286-297
A Mixed 2D/3D Interface for Music Spatialization....Pages 298-307
Organizing Information in 3D....Pages 308-314
Human Centered Virtual Interactive Image World for Image Retrieval....Pages 315-322
Virtual Great Barrier Reef: A Theoretical Approach Towards an Evolving, Interactive VR Environment Using a Distributed DOME and CAVE System....Pages 323-336
The Development of an Intelligent Haulage Truck Simulator for Improving the Safety of Operation in Surface Mines....Pages 337-344
Navigation in Large VR Urban Models....Pages 345-356
Art and Virtual Worlds....Pages 357-359
Las Meninas in VR: Storytelling and the Illusion in Art....Pages 360-372
Mitologies: Medieval Labyrinth Narratives in Virtual Reality....Pages 373-383
Aggregate Worlds: Virtual Architecture Aftermath....Pages 384-393
Zeuxis vs RealityEngine: Digital Realism and Virtual Worlds....Pages 394-405
Avatars: New Fields of Implication....Pages 406-410