SharedWeb-a shared virtual environment over World Wide Web

Author

Huang, Jiung-Yao ; Fang-Tsou, Chao-Tsou ; Chen, Jui-Fa ; Wang, Fu-Bin

Author_Institution

Multimedia & Virtual Reality Lab., Tamkang Univ., Tamsui, Taiwan

fYear

1997

fDate

13-16 Oct 1997

Firstpage

178

Lastpage

189

Abstract

Describes the design implementation and experimental results for a multi-user 3D World Wide Web (WWW) browsing system called SharedWeb, which is based on the request-response method of a WWW server. The key features of this system include: (i) the WWW server´s ability to remember all the browsers connected to it in order to transmit those messages required to maintain consistent states among the browsers, (ii) the dead-reckoning technique of distributed interactive simulation (DIS) used by the browsers in order to reduce the number of messages sent out on the network and to satisfy the timing requirement demanded by virtual environments, and (iii) the protocol data unit (PDU), also used in DIS, adapted by the SharedWeb system in order not only to include more information about the browsers but also to integrate SharedWeb with DIS in the near future

Keywords

Internet; access protocols; digital simulation; interactive systems; multi-access systems; network servers; online front-ends; timing; virtual reality; SharedWeb; World Wide Web; consistent state maintenance; dead-reckoning technique; distributed interactive simulation; message number reduction; multi-user 3D Web browsing system; protocol data unit; request-response method; server; shared virtual environment; timing requirement; Chaos; Computer science; Dead reckoning; Design engineering; Layout; Protocols; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Graphics and Applications, 1997. Proceedings., The Fifth Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8028-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCGA.1997.626199

Filename

626199