Webber: a networked virtual environment system

This paper describes Webber, a networked virtual environment system, which provides a realistic three dimensional cyberspace for users to navigate freely. Webber is a prototype implementation of DOOViE (Distributed Object-Oriented Virtual Enviromnent), which is a framework for constructing a multi-user virtual environment over the network. DOOViE has a hierarchical structure using object-oriented paradigm. The high-level components in DOOViE hierarchy are highly independent of each other and thus reusable. They can be distributed over the machines in the network. Webber is aimed at both testing the DOOViE concept and investigating the tradeoff between the computational resources and the communication resources in a distributed system