Muddleware for Prototyping Mixed Reality Multiuser Games

Author

Wagner, Daniel ; Schmalstieg, Dieter

fYear

2007

fDate

10-14 March 2007

Firstpage

235

Lastpage

238

Abstract

We present Muddleware, a communication platform designed for mixed reality multi-user games for mobile, lightweight clients. An approach inspired by Tuplespaces, which provides decoupling of sender and receiver is used to address the requirements of a potentially large number of mobile clients. A hierarchical database built on XML technology allows convenient prototyping and simple, yet powerful queries. Server side-extensions address persistence and autonomous behaviors through hierarchical state machines. The architecture has been tested with a number of multi-user games and is also used for non-entertainment applications

Keywords

XML; computer games; middleware; mobile computing; virtual reality; Muddleware; XML; hierarchical state machines; lightweight clients; mixed reality multiuser games; mobile clients; mobile computing; Computer architecture; Computer interfaces; Databases; Handheld computers; Middleware; Mobile communication; Network servers; Prototypes; Virtual reality; XML; C.2.4 [Computer Communication Networks]: Distributed Systems - Client/server; H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Multimedia Information Systems - Artificial, augmented, virtual realities; client-server architectures; middleware; mixed reality games;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Reality Conference, 2007. VR '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Charlotte, NC

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0906-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0906-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VR.2007.352489

Filename

4161031