X3DOM virtual reality book store

ABSTRACT

Virtual reality commer¹ce (VR-commerce) is a potential candidate for a wide adoption of the next wave of the e-commerce platform, since its advantages and novel shopping experience derived from the VR interface. Currently, platform dependence and downloading and installing a huge virtual world before cruising into the VR-store are examples among many cumbersome shoppers facing in using such platform. WebGL is a front runner for implementing this kind of innovative shopping experience, which just enters its matured phase. This study is the first implementation of a full-scale virtual reality store by X3D. It focused on the technical feasibility aspects of implementing a virtual reality book store by the X3D and WebGL standard.

References

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Document management and text processing

    • Document capture

      • Graphics recognition and interpretation

• Computing methodologies

  • Artificial intelligence

    • Computer vision

      • Image and video acquisition

        • 3D imaging

  • Computer graphics

    • Animation