An Inter-Space Avatar Programming Language in a Virtual Space on the WWW

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In recent years, research work on virtual space has been extensively carried out. Many virtual spaces are formed by multiple subspaces and the user uses an avatar to represent him moving around in the virtual space. In general, moving around in virtual spaces requires realtime user control. To make the avatar control more efficient and interesting, we propose the Avatar Programming language (AP) to program the avatar's behavior in a virtual space. To maintain the independency of subspaces which form the virtual space, we employ the internal control approach where the program handler is built inside each subspace. We implemented the system on a virtual space constructed with IBNR (Image-Based Non-Rendering), an image-based representation technique to construct virtual spaces which run on a normal web browser on the WWW. Using AP, the avatar's behavior can be flexibly predefined beforehand, and we can save the users much time and trouble in controlling the avatar in a virtual space.
一般社団法人情報処理学会の論文
2002-08-15