Project Abstract: VERDI

Verdi (Virtual Environment for Real-time Distributed applications over the Internet)

VERDI is a research project whose broad objective is the demonstration that advanced satellite broadband multimedia platforms can enable developers of Internet applications and publishers of rich-media contents to address the broadband Internet services market.

The VERDI project was articulated on three key technologies:

1. a multicast satellite-based network infrastructure (OpenSky),
2. a multi-users virtual reality server technology using multicast to optimize the sharing of information among distributed users (VRSAT),
3. and a VRML and Java-based technology (Cortona) allowing end users to navigate and to interact in shared 3D virtual worlds.

C-VIBE, the application designed by CALT in this project, is a virtual reality business simulation game in which learners, operating in distributed teams, are challenged to implement a major innovation in a fictitious company in which managers (represented by virtual characters) display dynamically different forms of resistance to change.

related projects: EIS Simulation, RuralWings, TIBM

Keywords: virtual reality, serious games, ...

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