Networked virtual environments are increasingly used for collaboration tasks and other interactive applications. While the graphics in such virtual worlds are usually three-dimensional, interactive 3D voice support is still in its infancy. Here we describe our demonstration system that supports P2P-based positional audio and interactive voice communication with the SecondLife platform.

The PLUS system is designed to efficiently track moving object locations on a road network and execute continuous spatial queries in support of location-based services. PLUS implements a novel lazy position update mechanism that significantly reduces the communication overhead and server indexing load related to frequent location updates in moving object and moving query scenarios. The contribution of this demo is to present how the lazy position update scheme can achieve message-efficiency under various conditions which can be interactively set via user-selectable parameters in a graphical user interface.