Service-oriented platform for virtual reality application development

An important contemporary fact is the advent of Web 2.0, mainly characterized by the possibility of content being produced collaboratively, empowering and enabling the concept of collective intelligence. Another important feature is the popularity of virtual communities, which allow people around the world to exchange information and experiences. In order to increase the potential for reuse and sharing of interactive content, this paper proposes an architectural model for a software platform that enables the online production and execution of virtual reality applications as well as sharing of interactive content. The remote online environment, associated with the capacity to represent and store 3D interactive content, enables the sharing and reuse of such content in the production of virtual reality applications. The paper we present the description of the main elements of the proposed architectural model and results of the research. The results point to the feasibility of the proposed model.