Communication visibility in shared virtual worlds

Author

Capps, Michael ; Teller, Seth

Author_Institution

Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

18-20 Jun 1997

Firstpage

187

Lastpage

192

Abstract

Though the service of shared virtual worlds is an active area of research, little effort has been made to optimize such systems for urban world spaces. Tracking the motion, action, and communication of thousands of users in a city requires an application of visibility for spatial and logical subdivision of updates. We propose the City-Level Optimizations for Virtual Environments (CLOVES) substrate for the MIT City Scan (automated urban geometry acquisition) project. CLOVES includes a generalized spatial subdivision optimized for visibility; a Graduated Visibility Set (GVS) generator; associated interest management techniques; and model service to distributed heterogeneous clients

Keywords

client-server systems; groupware; town and country planning; user interfaces; virtual reality; CLOVES; City-Level Optimizations for Virtual Environments; Graduated Visibility Set; MIT City Scan; automated urban geometry acquisition; communication visibility; distributed heterogeneous clients; interest management; logical subdivision; research; shared virtual worlds; spatial subdivision; urban world spaces; Buildings; Cities and towns; Computer graphics; Geometry; Image databases; Object oriented modeling; Predictive models; Solid modeling; Spatial databases; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1997. Proceedings., Sixth IEEE Workshops on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7967-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.1997.630812

Filename

630812