Title :
Distributed virtual reality using Octopus
Author :
Hartling, P. Atrick ; Just, Chris ; Cruz-Neira, Carolina
Author_Institution :
Virtual Reality Applications Center, Ames, IA, USA
Abstract :
With the widespread popularity of the Internet and advances in distributed computing and in virtual reality, more flexibility is needed in the development and use of collaborative virtual environments. In this paper, we present Octopus, a cross-platform, object-oriented API for constructing shared virtual worlds. The list of goals for Octopus, a description of its design and a detailed discussion of its implementation are provided. The design description gives explanations of the three components of Octopus: the core that handles networking and data sharing, the interface for implementing user representations in the virtual space (avatars), and the actual implementations of the avatars.
Keywords :
Internet; application program interfaces; distributed programming; graphical user interfaces; object-oriented programming; virtual reality; Internet; Octopus; avatars; collaborative virtual environments; cross-platform object-oriented API; data sharing; distributed virtual reality; networking; shared virtual worlds; user interface; user representations; virtual space; Chromium; Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Reality, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Yokohama, Japan
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0948-7
DOI :
10.1109/VR.2001.913770