EM-an environment manager for building networked virtual environments

Author

Wang, Qunjie ; Green, Mark ; Shaw, Chris

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta., Canada

fYear

1995

fDate

11-15 Mar 1995

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

18

Abstract

The Environment Manager (EM) is a high-level tool for constructing both single-user and multi-user virtual environments. A script file is used to initialize and run virtual worlds. Independent applications can share information and cooperate with each other across the Internet. EM reduces the effort required to produce a networked virtual world by providing high-level support for application replication, network configuration, communication management and concurrency control. This paper describes the architecture and implementation of EM

Keywords

Internet; application generators; computer network management; concurrency control; telecommunication computing; user interface management systems; virtual reality; EM; Environment Manager; Internet; MR Toolkit; application replication; communication management; concurrency control; cooperating applications; high-level support; independent applications; information sharing; initialization; interpreted language; multi-user environments; network configuration; networked virtual environment construction; peers; script file; single-user environments; virtual reality; virtual worlds; Animation; Buildings; Environmental management; Geometry; Graphics; Object oriented modeling; Packaging; Solid modeling; User interfaces; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium, 1995. Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Research Triangle Park, NC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7084-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VRAIS.1995.512474

Filename

512474