DIVE A multi-user virtual reality system

Author

Carlsson, Christer ; Hagsand, Olof

Author_Institution

Swedish Inst. of Comput. Sci., Kista, Sweden

fYear

1993

fDate

18-22 Sep 1993

Firstpage

394

Lastpage

400

Abstract

The Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment (DIVE) is a heterogeneous distributed virtual reality system based on UNIX and Internet networking protocols. Each participating process has a copy of a replicated database and changes are propagated to the other processes with reliable multicast protocols. DIVE provides a dynamic virtual environment where applications and users can enter and leave the environment on demand. Several user-related abstractions have been introduced to ease the task of application and user interface construction

Keywords

Internet; Unix; graphical user interfaces; groupware; interactive systems; multi-access systems; replicated databases; transport protocols; virtual reality; DIVE; Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment; Internet networking protocols; UNIX; application generation; dynamic virtual environment; heterogeneous distributed virtual reality system; multi-user virtual reality system; reliable multicast protocols; replicated database; user interface construction; user-related abstractions; Application software; Collaboration; Computer science; Databases; IP networks; Multicast protocols; Navigation; User interfaces; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium, 1993., 1993 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1363-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VRAIS.1993.380753

Filename

380753