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Reality-virtuality fusional campus environment: An online 3D platform based on OpenSimulator

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This paper presents a reality-virtual fusional campus environment. It is an online 3D platform with some aspects of real information merged together. The whole platform is based on OpenSimulator with detailed geo-models to represent the university campus. Some preliminary experiments were done to integrate the realistic information with the virtual campus for making the geo-environment not only with detailed indoor and outdoor models, but also with the real representations of the physical world. The overall motivation is to provide a framework with strong support for reality-virtuality fusional modeling in a collaborative 3D online platform for research purposes.

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  1. Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, China

    Weitao Che, Hui Lin & Mingyuan Hu

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Supported by the Direct Grant of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (No.2021064); the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No.2010AA122202).

CHE Weitao, Ph.D. candidate. His research interests include virtual geographic environment, spatial data modeling and management, and geosensor networks.

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Che, W., Lin, H. & Hu, M. Reality-virtuality fusional campus environment: An online 3D platform based on OpenSimulator. Geo-spat. Inf. Sci. 14, 144–149 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11806-011-0458-3

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