Viki LibraRy: A virtual reality library for collaborative browsing and navigation through hypertextA 3-page HT '23 demo paper presenting Viki LibraRy, a collaborative VR spatial-hypertext library that renders Wikipedia categories as Rooms, Bookshelves, and Books via a RESTful backend with Ubiq-based multi-user support.

Viki LibraRy: A virtual reality library for collaborative browsing and navigation through hypertext

Shaduan Babbili, Kevin Bönisch, Yannick Heinrich, Philipp Stephan, Giuseppe Abrami, and Alexander Mehler — Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (Shaduan Babbili, Kevin Bönisch, Yannick Heinrich, and Philipp Stephan contributed equally to this research.)

Published in HT '23: 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media · DOI: 10.1145/3603163.3609079 · License: © Copyright held by the owner/author(s).

Keywords: virtual hypertext, virtual museum, virtual reality, virtual reality simulation

Session: Interactive Media: Art and Design

Pages: spit

Conference: HT '23

Abstract

We present Viki LibraRy, a virtual-reality-based system for generating and exploring online information as a spatial hypertext. It creates a virtual library based on Wikipedia in which Rooms are used to make data available via a RESTful backend. In these Rooms, users can browse through all articles of the corresponding Wikipedia category in the form of Books. In addition, users can access different Rooms, through virtual portals. Beyond that, the explorations can be done alone or collaboratively, using Ubiq.

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