Metaverses as a Platform for Game Based Learning

Getchell, Kristoffer; Oliver, Iain; Miller, Alan; Allison, Colin

doi:10.1109/aina.2010.125

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“…Computer games need only communicate avatar action and can consequently operate with tens of kbps [14] bandwidth. Studies of Second life traffic show that it uses an order of magnitude more bandwidth [13], [15]. In [16] it is shown that OpenSim behaviour is similar.…”

Section: Network Limitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the 3D Web with Open Simulator

Oliver

Miller

Allison

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA)

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Abstract-Continuing advances and reduced costs in computational power, graphics processors and network bandwidth have led to 3D immersive multi-user virtual worlds becoming increasingly accessible while offering an improved and engaging Quality of Experience. At the same time the functionality of the World Wide Web continues to expand alongside the computing infrastructure it runs on and pages can now routinely accommodate many forms of interactive multimedia components as standard features -streaming video for example. Inevitably there is an emerging expectation that the Web will expand further to incorporate immersive 3D environments. This is exciting because humans are well adapted to operating in 3D environments and it is challenging because existing software and skill sets are focused around competencies in 2D Web applications. Open Simulator (OpenSim) is a freely available open source toolkit that empowers users to create and deploy their own 3D environments in the same way that anyone can create and deploy a Web site. Its characteristics can be seen as a set of references as to how the 3D Web could be instantiated. This paper describes experiments carried out with OpenSim to better understand network and system issues, and presents experience in using OpenSim to develop and deliver applications for education and cultural heritage. Evaluation is based upon observations of these applications in use and measurements of systems both in the lab and in the wild.

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Section: Network Limitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the 3D Web with Open Simulator

Oliver

Miller

Allison

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA)

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“…Examples of virtual worlds are Activewords, Second Life, or OpenSimulator. Since the new generation of personal computers can bring good performance for 3-D interfaces to common users at a reasonable price, 3-D networked virtual worlds have been suggested as promising and affordable collaborative platforms [Bainbridge 2007, Prendinger 2009] that can be applied to gaming [Getchell et al 2010].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Agriculture, while of uttermost importance for society, may also have a strong negative impact on the environment. Hence we propose a game that offers players the opportunity to experience the effects of different styles of agriculture on the environment. The game was built with the purpose of promoting the awareness of agriculture issues, such as, (1) the impact of fertilizers in sources of fresh water, (2) the problems related to deforestation and impact on the weather, and (3) the importance of balancing environmental and economic perspectives in order to produce food of good quality with low impact on the environment-and at the same time keep the activity sustainable. To make players care about these issues, we added a direct impact of the players' actions on a population of non-player characters, the villagers, whose simple autonomous behaviors resemble that of living entities. The game was implemented in the multi-user online three-dimensional (3-D) virtual world platform Open-Simulator, which supports an immersive user experience and high accessibility. An experiment was performed and showed that the game improved players' knowledge about agriculture and their awareness of the environmental impact of agriculture.

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“…Virtual worlds have achieved significant levels of interest for supporting teaching/learning activities [1], [2], particularly to enhance the exploitation of multi-agent situations [3][4][5][6], by providing immersive environments where concepts are developed in a simulated context [7], [8]. Virtual worlds such as Second Life, OpenSimulator, Activeworlds, and others have to some extent democratized this process, by allowing nontechnical users to develop immersive 3D environments which can be readily made available to other users.…”

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Development of platform-independent multi-user choreographies for virtual worlds based on ontology combination and mapping

Silva¹,

Silva²,

Paredes

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)

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This paper presents two contributions: (i) a system architecture capable of staging platform-independent choreographies within different virtual worlds, and (ii) an ontologybased solution for capturing and representing multiuser choreographies with reduced time/effort. We argue that choreographies for virtual worlds should be clearly separated from the technical characteristics of their execution in virtual world technological platforms. Due to the heterogeneity of the various virtual worlds and their domain requirements, we propose exploiting the modularity, generality, and granularity dimensions of ontologies to simplify and empower the choreography modeling capabilities. Instead of a unique ontology, several ontologies with different levels of generality and granularity can be progressively combined to support the modeling requirements of a given choreography. Because these ontologies are aligned with the ontology of each specific virtual world platform, the mapping and transformation between the core ontology is simplified and automated, thus reducing the development and time-to-market.

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Metaverses as a Platform for Game Based Learning

Cited by 46 publications

References 10 publications

Towards the 3D Web with Open Simulator

Towards the 3D Web with Open Simulator

AgriVillage

Development of platform-independent multi-user choreographies for virtual worlds based on ontology combination and mapping

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