Title :
Inhabited TV: multimedia broadcasting from large scale collaborative virtual world
Author :
Radenkovic, Milena ; Greenhalgh, Chris ; Benford, Steve
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Technol., Nottingham Univ., UK
Abstract :
Inhabited TV is a new and exciting medium for entertainment and social communication which combines CVEs with broadcast TV. This paper explores motivations for and the design of scaleable audio service for CVEs used in Inhabited TV. We proposed a flexible and scaleable distributed architecture for real-time voice mixing which is specifically tailored to support very dynamic sessions, rapidly varying requirements and very high levels of participation. We also consider use of crowd audio synthesis and environmental sonification which can minimise network traffic in the audio medium, and thus further increasing its scalability
Keywords :
distributed processing; entertainment; groupware; multimedia communication; telecommunication traffic; television broadcasting; virtual reality; voice communication; Inhabited TV; broadcast TV; crowd audio synthesis; entertainment; environmental sonification; flexible distributed architecture; large scale collaborative virtual world; multimedia broadcasting; network traffic minimisation; real-time voice mixing; scaleable audio service design; scaleable distributed architecture; social communication; Collaboration; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Large-scale systems; Layout; Multimedia communication; Navigation; Scalability; TV broadcasting; Telecommunication traffic; Virtual environment;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services, 1999. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nis
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5768-X
DOI :
10.1109/TELSKS.1999.804697
