Bringing integrated multimedia content into virtual reality environments

Abstract

Most of the tools and languages for modeling Virtual Reality environments, such as VRML, X3D, Java3D, etc. do not allow the description of synchronized presentation of multimedia content inside these environments. Multimedia capabilities motivate users capturing their attention, which is actually an asset when we want to provide them with a higher degree of immersion inside Virtual Reality applications. This paper presents a robust and generic solution for the integrated presentation of different kinds of media objects inside virtual environments based on the Graphical Engine OGRE. © 2009 Springer-Verlag.