This paper presents development aspects of a semi-autonomous animated avatar for real-time interactive virtual environment applications.

This paper presents a brief review of the distributed virtual environment (DVE) applications in training and telecollaboration. The second part of the paper discusses systems architecture and avatar-owner tracking aspects for an experimental DVE.

Virtual prototyping environments are emerging as a new generation of EDA tools. Such a tool will allow the designer to test interactively complex electronic systems on an enhanced-reality virtual workbench, by concurrently running multidomain (mechanical, electrical, thermal, etc.) what-if experiments. Virtual prototyping will shorten the design cycle, improve the product quality, and reduce the t...