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Multi-user Virtual Environments for Education

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Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games

Synonyms

3DMUVE: Three-dimensional multi-user virtual environment; HUDs: Head-up displays; LSL: Linden script language; MMORPGs: Massively-multiplayer online role-playing games; MOOs: MUD, object-oriented; MUDs: Multi-user dungeons; OpenSim: OpenSimulator

Definition

Multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) are structured with three-dimensional objects, in which users can actively navigate their avatars to different areas of the immersive environment.

OpenSimulator (OpenSim) is an open source multi-platform and multi-user 3D application server.

Introduction

Online multi-user virtual worlds have been used since the late 1970s (Achterbosch et al. 2007; Shield 2003). Initially, these environments were text-based interaction called multi-user dungeons (MUDs). With the transformation of MUDs to MOOs (MUD, object-oriented), users started to modify these worlds (Tüzün 2006). Advances in information and communication technologies have driven the MOOs’ evolution, resulting in diverse human...

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    Dilek Doğan

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Doğan, D., Çınar, M., Tüzün, H. (2018). Multi-user Virtual Environments for Education. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_172-1

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