Virtual museums for all: Employing game technology for edutainment

Virtual Reality

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 96-106

  Lepouras, George ^a   Vassilakis, Costas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

Author keywords

3D game technologies; Desktop VR; Virtual museums

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144472250     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-004-0141-1     Document Type: Article

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