Title :
The mirror-reflections on inhabited TV
Author_Institution :
BT Labs, UK
Abstract :
Inhabited TV is a vision of future television services in which multi-user virtual environments deliver unprecedented levels of audience participation. Social chat and interaction are mixed with professional content and programming to create on-line communities. The Mirror was a ground-breaking collaborative experiment in Inhabited TV created by BT, Sony Illuminations and the BBC. Six on-line worlds were available to over 2000 viewers of the BBC2 series “The Net” in January and February 1997, and this paper provides an overview of the project
Keywords :
interactive television; virtual reality; The Mirror; audience participation; future television services; inhabited TV; multi-user virtual environments; on-line communities; on-line world; Avatars; Collaboration; Lighting; Mirrors; Multimedia communication; Programming profession; Reflection; Space technology; TV broadcasting; Virtual environment;
Conference_Titel :
Community Networking Proceedings, 1997 Fourth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4290-9
DOI :
10.1109/CN.1997.629968
