A 3D virtual community integrated with web-applications based on Google earth

Author

Huaiyu, Xu ; Qing, Ni ; Ruidan, Su ; Xiaoyu, Hou

Author_Institution

Integrated Circuit Appl. Software Lab., Northeastern Univ., Shenyang, China

fYear

2009

fDate

8-11 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

89

Abstract

A new system for constructing virtual community integrated GE and multi-applications is introduced in this paper. Although GE provides a good platform of 3D space for virtual community, only 3D scene is not enough. How to embed the interesting Web-applications into GE to construct the large virtual community is studied. A system combines the e-commerce, 3D objects, entertainment and sight-seeing with GE is also implemented. The architecture of virtual community system and detailed design is illustrated. Both ecommerce and entertainment such as online game, blog, chatting and video on demand are implemented based on the COM API provided by GE. The experimental indicates have shown that the system is more flexible and easier to satisfy users´ requirement compared with the most of virtual community.

Keywords

Internet; application program interfaces; computer games; electronic commerce; geographic information systems; virtual reality; 3D space; 3D virtual community; COM API; Google Earth; Web-applications; e-commerce; online game; Earth; Educational institutions; Electronic commerce; Games; Information services; Internet; Layout; Video on demand; Virtual reality; Web sites; 3D vitual communities; Google Earth; Google SketchUp; multi-applications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009. ICCSIT 2009. 2nd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4519-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4520-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234760

Filename

5234760