topical media & game development

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questions

8. virtual environments

• (*) Discuss how virtual environments may be used for giving access to (multimedia) information. Give a brief characterization of virtual environments, and indicate how information (hyper) spaces may be projected in a virtual environment.

concepts

• What is meant by virtual context?
• Give an example of navigation by query, and indicate its possible advantages.
• Discuss the deployment of (intelligente) navigation agents.

technology

• Give a brief characterization of: VRML.
• What is a viewpoint transformation?
• What kinds of navigation can you think of?
• How may intelligent avatars be realized? Give an example.

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