The goal of our project is to explore the integration of interactive 3D technologies with digital AV products and services.  The main themes related to the projects are:
        - streaming media and streaming geometry extension for VRML
        - use of video to increase the visual richness of virtual worlds
        - rendering and compositing techniques for realistic insertion of
          "shaped video" into virtual worlds
        - replicated server architectures for shared multi-user worlds

Currently we are using Openworlds' extensible browser as our main development platform.  Its extensibility allows us to easily incorporate new features and functionalities into the VRML based browser.  Thus, we are able to make great progress in a short amount of time.  Moreover, we found that Openworlds' supporting engineers are extremely helpful in answering ALL our questions in a timely matter.  They have even gone as far as discovering bugs in our own code.

Sidney Wang
Distributed Systems Laboratory
Sony Electronics Inc