Navigation and Exploration in Virtual Environment with Virtual Agent using Java 3D

This project's objective was to investigate the potential used of Java 3D in
developing a virtual environment integrated with virtual agent. The methodology of
this project is constitutes on four (4) main phases; planning and analysis phase,
modeling and development phase, integration construction phase and the last is
testing phase. The testing phase indicates that in order to develop a virtual reality
(VR) application, the developer must perform hard-coded programming to model the
objects as well as to develop a behavior. Navigation and exploration activity in a
virtual environment can be perform easily by using keyboard arrows. To develop a
joint behavior between the virtual environment and virtual agent, complex and
careful programming is required. This project's conclusion indicates that Java 3D
provides other libraries to develop a VRapplication to better help user in navigation
and exploration in a virtual environment. For that reason, further study and
investigation can be conducted to achieve this goal.