Abstract
The Australian Great Barrier Reef is a natural wonder of our world and a registered UNESCO World Heritage site hosting 1.5 million visitor-days in 1994/95. Tourism is currently the main commercial use and is estimated to generate over $1 billion annually.[1] With the coming 2000 Olympics in Australia, tourism increases will substantially present a major conservation and preservation problem to the reef. This paper proposes a solution to this problem through establishing a virtual reality installation that is interactive and evolving, enabling many visitors to discover the reef through high quality immersive entertainment. This paper considers the technical implications required for a system based in Complexity: a distributed DOME and CAVE architectural system; a mixed reality environment; artificial life; multi-user interactivity; and hardware interfaces.
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Refsland, S. T., Ojika, T., Defanti, T., Johnson, A., Leigh, J., Loeffler, C., & Tu, X. (1998). Virtual great barrier reef: A theoretical approach towards an evolving, interactive VR environment using a distributed DOME and CAVE system. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 1434, pp. 323–336). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68686-x_31
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