Inhabited TV: multimedia broadcasting from large scale collaborative virtual world

Author

Radenkovic, Milena ; Greenhalgh, Chris ; Benford, Steve

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Technol., Nottingham Univ., UK

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

68

Abstract

Inhabited TV is a new and exciting medium for entertainment and social communication which combines CVEs with broadcast TV. This paper explores motivations for and the design of scaleable audio service for CVEs used in Inhabited TV. We proposed a flexible and scaleable distributed architecture for real-time voice mixing which is specifically tailored to support very dynamic sessions, rapidly varying requirements and very high levels of participation. We also consider use of crowd audio synthesis and environmental sonification which can minimise network traffic in the audio medium, and thus further increasing its scalability

Keywords

distributed processing; entertainment; groupware; multimedia communication; telecommunication traffic; television broadcasting; virtual reality; voice communication; Inhabited TV; broadcast TV; crowd audio synthesis; entertainment; environmental sonification; flexible distributed architecture; large scale collaborative virtual world; multimedia broadcasting; network traffic minimisation; real-time voice mixing; scaleable audio service design; scaleable distributed architecture; social communication; Collaboration; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Large-scale systems; Layout; Multimedia communication; Navigation; Scalability; TV broadcasting; Telecommunication traffic; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services, 1999. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nis

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5768-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TELSKS.1999.804697

Filename

804697