Toward next generation virtual reality systems

Author

Landauer, Jürgen ; Blach, Roland ; Bues, Matthias ; Rösch, Angela ; Simon, Andreas

Author_Institution

VISLab, Fraunhofer Inst. for Ind. Eng., Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

1997

fDate

3-6 Jun 1997

Firstpage

581

Lastpage

588

Abstract

Virtual reality (VR) systems utilize more and more output media in order to make virtual environments more realistic. Furthermore, VR developers nowadays concentrate on rich interaction and animation. This causes the need for a new VR development system architecture. Such a new architecture is proposed and discussed. Its key features include support for new output media, device independence, and rapid behavioral prototyping. The Lightning VR system is introduced as a prototype for the presented architecture. It has already shown its usefulness in several industrial applications

Keywords

computer animation; virtual reality; Lightning VR system; VR development system architecture; animation; device independence; industrial applications; interaction; next generation virtual reality systems; output media; rapid behavioral prototyping; virtual environments; Animation; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Force feedback; Industrial engineering; Lightning; Prototypes; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems '97. Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5530-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1997.609772

Filename

609772