Incorporating 3D Sound in Different Virtual Worlds

Abstract

The use of virtual tools in a university level results in a series of benefits. A virtual world allows the students to interact with modern technology, to learn with different tools, etc. This project was developed to be used in the Interaction Computer-Human and Computer Graphics courses, due to different manipulations kind, and the combination 3D graphics and sound, at the Bachelor in Computer Engineering at the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala. Specifically, this paper focuses on the behavior of sound on combining: "Navigation, 3D objects and 3D sound", in different virtual worlds. Our project allows building different virtual environment multi-screen, with a full navigation system, four ways of manipulating: keyboard, head tracker, remote control and input files with different predefined tours. Furthermore, with this project we can also build a Wheat stone-type stereoscope. We have implemented different virtual worlds for the different physic environments, which use different sound sources.