@conference {2829, title = {A Distributed Virtual Learning Center in Cyberspace}, booktitle = {4th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Gifu, Japan, Vol. 2}, year = {1998}, month = {18 - 20 November}, pages = { 410 - 415}, abstract = {In this paper, we present a user-friendly 3D Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) that would be used for on-line access to educational multimedia material over the Internet. We design and develop this application and the corresponding Graphical User Interface (GUI) in the framework of the European project {\textquotedblleft}Virtual European School{\textquotedblright} (VES) whose aim is to develop a comprehensive resource of teaching material for secondary school education and to provide access to this material over Internet. It is a web-based application that is being developed as a client/server architecture using standard protocols and technologies such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, Java and appropriate 3D formats.}, author = {Christos Bouras and A Philopoulos and D Fotakis} }