Enhancing Enterprise Virtual Worlds with Real-World Event Information

In this paper, we present a novel system for enhancing enterprise virtual worlds by supplying information about real-world events and activities at near real-time. With more enterprises realizing the commercial benefits of virtual worlds, the requirement for spontaneous replication of the real-world has become essential. In the proposed system, we detect and classify different real-life human activities using a visual surveillance system and then send corresponding relevant information as inputs to a virtual world server. The virtual world server uses this information to reproduce these activities in the virtual environment. We have used the office model of our lab and recreated human activities and movements with near real spontaneity.