Presence in Shared Virtual Environments and Virtual Togetherness
- 1 April 2000
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality
- Vol. 9 (2) , 214-217
- https://doi.org/10.1162/105474600566736
Abstract
This Forum article discusses the relationships among people, their avatars, and their virtual environment workstations in a shared virtual environment. It introduces the notion of togetherness, the sense of people being together in a shared space, which is the counterpart for shared VEs to the presence of an individual in a VE. The role of tactual communication is emphasized as being fundamental to togetherness.Keywords
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