S. Sugawara et al., INTERSPACE - NETWORKED VIRTUAL WORLD FOR VISUAL COMMUNICATION, IEICE transactions on information and systems, E77D(12), 1994, pp. 1344-1349
The many-user networked virtual world system ''lnterSpace'' is describ
ed. This system's main purpose is to enhance the user's communication
activities. In InterSpace, the real world information is embedded in t
he shared virtual world as a combination of video and CG images. Users
can observe and access this information by simply looking and approac
hing embedded images. The concept of InterSpace and a prototype system
of this service are introduced.