Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual
Produktnummer:
18b309c018441c4d67a27abb500b58ca20
| Themengebiete: | Content Human-computer Interaction Online community Virtual world collaboration trust virtual reality |
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| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 18.12.2009 |
| EAN: | 9781848828247 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 318 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Herausgeber: | Bainbridge, William Sims |
| Verlag: | Springer London |
Produktinformationen "Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual"
William Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most prominent current example is World of Warcraft (Corneliussen and Rettberg 2008), a massively multiplayer online game with 11 million s- scribers. Some other virtual worlds, notably Second Life (Rymaszewski et al. 2007), are not games at all, but Internet-based collaboration contexts in which people can create virtual objects, simulated architecture, and working groups. Although interest in virtual worlds has been growing for at least a dozen years, only today it is possible to bring together an international team of highly acc- plished authors to examine them with both care and excitement, employing a range of theories and methodologies to discover the principles that are making virtual worlds increasingly popular and may in future establish them as a major sector of human-centered computing.
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