Taking living worlds into people’s living rooms
- Tim Regan
VRML '98 Proceedings of the third symposium on Virtual reality modeling language |
Published by ACM
Living worlds are Shared Virtual Worlds based in VRML. At BT Labs we ran two experiments with Sony and a production company called Illuminations examining the use of such worlds as television, so called Inhabited TV. This paper introduces the two experiments. Firstly The Mirror looked at running communities in Shared VRML Worlds alongside the BBC’s series The Net. Secondly Heaven & Hell – Live put the Shared VRML world centre stage by having one hour of national TV broadcast live from within the world by Channel 4