Project URL: DEMO single user version, http://bespace.lcc.gatech.edu/single
Project URL: REAL multi-user version, http://bespace.lcc.gatech.edu

"Bespace (2003) is a web3d, multi-user lecture hall that empowers teachers, and addresses both the affordances and limitations of virtual space. A synchronous online distance learning environment, it utilizes the standard convention of information delivery found in both real and online environments – the slideshow presentation. The slideshow mode of delivery takes on radical implications as the teacher’s avatar, the wed3D representation of the teacher transforms into the presentation. The teacher acts a node of information delivery, and literally shape-shifts into slides, interactive models and small exploreable landscapes. This approach negates the long standing multi-user, web3D problems of collaboration and navigation. It exploits, rather than denies, the fact that web3D is generated by lines of code and engaged via mouse and screen. Web3D is a GUI and the teacher’s avatar is a part of that GUI. Unbound by rules of faux reality, the teacher is the presentation."