High performance virtual reality distributed electronic commerce: application for the furniture and ceramics industries

Author

Caballer, M. ; Guerrero, D. ; Hernández, V. ; Román, J.E. ; Alcañiz, M. ; Gil, J.A. ; Rubio, J.M.

Author_Institution

Grupo de Redes y Cornputacion de Altas Prestaciones, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

516

Lastpage

521

Abstract

This paper presents an e-commerce tool that extends the conventional online store with a new section called room planner, a web application which is embedded in the virtual store. It allows the specification of the geometry of the room, placement of the objects and selection of the point of view. Then a realistic picture of the scene can be obtained. This functionality is very suitable for the furniture and ceramics sectors. In order to generate the images a parallel radiosity illumination algorithm has been implemented, which can be used in low-cost platforms such as a cluster of PCs, so that these technologies are affordable also for SMEs.

Keywords

electronic commerce; virtual reality; e-commerce tool; room planner; virtual store; virtual stores; Application software; Ceramics; Clustering algorithms; Delay; Electronic commerce; Gas insulated transmission lines; Image generation; Internet; Layout; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualisation, 2002. Proceedings. Sixth International Conference on

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1656-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2002.1028823

Filename

1028823