Extending Game Technologies with Virtual Reality and Multi-Agent Systems

Nowadays, videogames, computer simulations and training are very complex applications because users require higher and higher levels of quality. Artificial Intelligence plays nowadays a fundamental role in videogames and virtual reality applications. Agents interacting with humans must have a credible visual appearance and must maintain user immersion. The most important issues of user’s interest are both realistic visualization and convincing intelligence. This paper presents a system that allows a full integration of two areas which are becoming increasingly important recently: virtual reality (visualization) and intelligent multi-agent systems (artificial intelligence), in a flexible and easily scalable way. This system extends the technological possibilities of the videogames.