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Collaborative Virtual
Environments could radically alter the way we use computers and
communicate with each other. The technology has great potential
but unfortunately virtual environments are often not effective
and too expensive. To address that, there are three main
objectives to the CAVES project:
- To discover the aspects of collaborative
virtual environments that make them effective. This includes
the environment itself and also the representation of the
user within that environment.
- To build authoring tools which aid
non-specialist Collaborative Virtual Environment authors in
creating engaging and useful environments, which can be
populated with virtual objects and virtual copies of real
world objects.
- To define a cheap hardware platform for
displaying and interacting with the Collaborative Virtual
Environment, for which we then produce an integrated
software system.
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