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
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