CityU and IT leaders to research web-based collaborative technologies
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City University, PCCW Business eSolutions and Sun Microsystems have joined forces to research web-based 3D collaborative technologies under a University-Industry Collaboration Programme backed by the government's Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF).
"With the increasing popularity of the Internet, we
believe that one of its main applications will be to support remote collaboration, such as collaborative design, gaming, virtual classroom, and virtual conferencing," Dr Lau said.The research results will be important to local industry and to the development of collaborative e-commerce in Asia. When fully developed, the new 3D collaborative engine could help build such complex web-based applications as engineering designs, surgery, multi-user computer gaming, remote sensing and visualization, training and long-distance education.