Boulos Maged N Kamel, Burden David
Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, UK.
Int J Health Geogr. 2007 Nov 27;6:51. doi: 10.1186/1476-072X-6-51.
This paper describes technologies from Daden Limited for geographically mapping and accessing live news stories/feeds, as well as other real-time, real-world data feeds (e.g., Google Earth KML feeds and GeoRSS feeds) in the 3-D virtual world of Second Life, by plotting and updating the corresponding Earth location points on a globe or some other suitable form (in-world), and further linking those points to relevant information and resources. This approach enables users to visualise, interact with, and even walk or fly through, the plotted data in 3-D. Users can also do the reverse: put pins on a map in the virtual world, and then view the data points on the Web in Google Maps or Google Earth. The technologies presented thus serve as a bridge between mirror worlds like Google Earth and virtual worlds like Second Life. We explore the geo-data display potential of virtual worlds and their likely convergence with mirror worlds in the context of the future 3-D Internet or Metaverse, and reflect on the potential of such technologies and their future possibilities, e.g. their use to develop emergency/public health virtual situation rooms to effectively manage emergencies and disasters in real time. The paper also covers some of the issues associated with these technologies, namely user interface accessibility and individual privacy.
本文介绍了来自达登有限公司的技术,这些技术用于在“第二人生”的三维虚拟世界中对实时新闻报道/资讯源以及其他实时现实世界数据馈源(例如谷歌地球KML馈源和地理RSS馈源)进行地理映射和访问,方法是在世界中的地球仪或其他合适形式上绘制并更新相应的地球位置点,并进一步将这些点链接到相关信息和资源。这种方法使用户能够以三维方式可视化、与之交互,甚至在绘制的数据中行走或飞行。用户也可以进行反向操作:在虚拟世界的地图上放置大头针,然后在谷歌地图或谷歌地球中在网络上查看数据点。因此,所展示的技术成为了像谷歌地球这样的镜像世界与像“第二人生”这样的虚拟世界之间的桥梁。我们在未来三维互联网或元宇宙的背景下探索虚拟世界的地理数据显示潜力及其与镜像世界可能的融合,并思考此类技术的潜力及其未来可能性,例如利用它们开发应急/公共卫生虚拟情况室以实时有效管理紧急情况和灾难。本文还涵盖了与这些技术相关的一些问题,即用户界面可访问性和个人隐私。