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Enhanced Environments

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Enhanced Environments is a new method for using real-time information to eventually support large-scale, climatic virtual environments that foster virtual life and natural eco-behavioral conditions. The purpose of this research is to create an enhanced environment where the hydrological conditions and the real user are integrated into an immersive, real-time eco system. For this research experiment, we customized available GIS satellite, terrain, and photography data to construct a highly accurate, large-scale virtual environment. Next a web-based climatic collection system was developed to persistently collect real time weather information for the physical area being modeled. Finally an Enhanced Environment Module was created to support a ‘living’ virtual eco-system supporting real-time climatic conditions. This type of enhanced environment lays the groundwork for creating dynamic environments that integrate the behavioral patterns of climate, artificial life, user interactions and their complex interrelationships within a dynamic virtual world.

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