A 3D virtual community integrated with web-applications based on Google earth

A new system for constructing virtual community integrated GE and multi-applications is introduced in this paper. Although GE provides a good platform of 3D space for virtual community, only 3D scene is not enough. How to embed the interesting web-applications into GE to construct the large virtual community is studied. A system combines the e-commerce, 3D objects, entertainment and sight-seeing with GE is also implemented. The architecture of virtual community system and detailed design is illustrated. Both ecommerce and entertainment such as online game, blog, chatting and video on demand are implemented based on the COM API provided by GE. The experimental indicates have shown that the system is more flexible and easier to satisfy users' requirement compared with the most of virtual community.