Synchronizing Full-Body Avatar Transforms with WebRTC DataChannel on Educational Metaverse

TL;DR

This paper enhances a web-based VR platform by integrating full-body avatars and synchronizing avatar transforms via WebRTC DataChannel to improve voice-gesture consistency in educational metaverse environments.

Contribution

It introduces a method for synchronizing full-body avatar transforms using WebRTC DataChannel in a web-based VR platform, improving communication realism.

Findings

Confirmed improved voice-gesture consistency through preliminary validation.

Demonstrated feasibility of real-time avatar transform synchronization in web-based VR.

Enhanced communication quality in educational metaverse applications.

Abstract

Full-body avatars are suggested to be beneficial for communication in virtual environments, and consistency between users' voices and gestures is considered essential to ensure communication quality. This paper propose extending the functionality of a web-based VR platform to support the use of full-body avatars and delegated avatar transforms synchronization to WebRTC DataChannel to enhance the consistency between voices and gestures. Finally, we conducted a preliminary validation to confirm the consistency.