Interactive movie-based walk-through system for Internet users

We describe the development of a walk-through system based on our IMV (Inte ractive Movie Technique). Conventional walk-through systems suffer from the following problems: client cost problem, response time problem, and limite d scene problem. To solve these three problems, we developed an IMV walk-th rough system. The IMV system features 1) high adaptability to the Internet, 2) easy virtual space updating, 3) accommodation of low-performance client terminals, and 4) short response time before the start of the service. The IMV architecture is suitable for developing a walk-through system with hig h inter activity. In this paper, we report a virtual library system using t he IMV system.