Metaverse seamlessly integrates the real world with the virtual world and allows avatars to
carry out rich activities including creation, display, entertainment, social, and trading. It …

Social virtual worlds such as Second Life (SL) are digital representations of the real world
where human-controlled avatars evolve and interact through social activities. Understanding …

Abstract Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) are one of the most
exciting and most rapidly expanding genres of online games. This survey presents state-of …

Distributed virtual environments (DVEs) are attracting a lot of attention in recent years, due to
the increasing popularity of online gaming and social networks. As the number of concurrent …

The neighbor table/distributed hash table (DHT) is used to choose the data supplier for data‐
dispatching services in distributed virtual environments based on peer‐to‐peer networks. It …

This paper introduces a new technique, called peer-assisted rendering, that aims to enable
interactive navigation in a 3D networked virtual environment using a resource-constrained …

This paper proposes a novel path-assisted dead reckoning algorithm for distributed virtual
environments (DVEs). Unlike traditional dead reckoning algorithms that perform …

The design and tuning of networked virtual environments (NVEs), such as World of Warcraft
(WoW), require understanding the in-NVE mobility characteristics of their citizens. Although …

This paper describes an improved image compression scheme using backpropagation
networks. The new scheme is aimed at improving the networks' generalisation capabilities …

Movement, one of the most common actions of avatars in virtual worlds, can have an
important impact on the performance of networked virtual environments (NVEs). In this work …