The Miramar virtual collaboration environment was originally designed and constructed as a singleuser 3D workspace. Its transformation into a multiuser collaboration workspace - while still retaining its core capabilities - posed major challenges, some anticipated, some empirical. The authors identify the issues faced in this transmogrification, discuss how they were addressed and why, the lessons learned, and remaining challenges.
Citation:
John David Miller, Cindy Pickering, "From One to Many: Transforming Miramar into a Collaboration Space," c5, pp.109-116, Fifth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 '07), 2007