• DocumentCode
    131095
  • Title

    MuVR: A Multi-User Virtual Reality platform

  • Author

    Thomas, Julian ; Bashyal, Raghav ; Goldstein, Samantha ; Suma, Evan

  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    March 29 2014-April 2 2014
  • Firstpage
    115
  • Lastpage
    116
  • Abstract
    Consumer adoption of virtual reality technology has historically been held back by poor accessibility, the lack of intuitive multi-user capabilities, dependence on external infrastructure for rendering and tracking, and the amount of time and effort required to enter virtual reality systems. This poster presents the current status of our work creating MuVR, a Multi-User Virtual Reality platform that seeks to overcome these hindrances. The MuVR project comprises four main goals: scalable and easy to use multi-user capabilities, portable and self-contained hardware, a rapidly deployable system, and ready accessibility to others. We provide a description of the platform we developed to address these goals and discuss potential directions for future work.
  • Keywords
    human computer interaction; rendering (computer graphics); virtual reality; MuVR project; accessibility; consumer adoption; external infrastructure; intuitive multiuser capabilities; multiuser virtual reality platform; object tracking; portable self-contained hardware; rendering; system deployment; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Hardware; Servers; Tracking; Virtual environments; H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Multimedia Information Systems — Artificial, augmented and virtual realities;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Virtual Reality (VR), 2014 iEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Minneapolis, MN
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VR.2014.6802078
  • Filename
    6802078