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Collaborative environments for augmented and virtual reality applications are virtual environments which can be experienced by more than one user to cooperate in a collaborative task.
Collaborative environments can be designed to be compatible with augmented reality (AR) interfaces, virtual reality (VR) interfaces or both.
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Human communication and collaboration through digital systems have been the focus of research for more than 30 years. This research field is known as Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Though CSCW can greatly benefit from AR and VR, only recently AR and VR have reached technological progress that enables researchers to focus on exploiting these technologies to support collaboration through collaborative environments (CEs). Tech companies such as Microsoft, Vive and Apple are continuously developing new hardware and software to support AR and VR, and among the various application...
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Manuri, F., De Pace, F., Sanna, A. (2022). Collaborative Environments for Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_478-1
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