An Ontology for Supporting the Evolution of Virtual Reality Scenarios

Serious games with 3D interfaces are Virtual Reality VR systems that are becoming common for the training of military and emergency teams. A platform for the development of serious games should allow the addition of semantics to the virtual environment and the modularization of the artificial intelligence controlling the behaviors of non-playing characters in order to support a productive end-user development environment. In this paper, we report the ontology design activity performed in the context of the PRESTO project aiming to realize a conceptual model able to abstract the developers from the graphical and geometrical properties of the entities in the VR, as well as the behavioral models associated to the non-playing characters.