VGuide: design and performance evaluation of a synchronous collaborative virtual reality application

Author

Arango, J.M. ; McKinley, P.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

183

Abstract

The paper describes the design and operation of VGuide, a synchronous virtual reality tool that enables one user to lead a group of users synchronously through a virtual world written in VRML. VGuide employs the services of Pavilion, a middleware framework with support for developing collaborative Web based applications. The major components of VGuide and their interaction are described, followed by results of a performance study on a mobile computing testbed

Keywords

client-server systems; groupware; information resources; mobile computing; performance evaluation; virtual reality; Pavilion; VGuide; VRML; collaborative Web based applications; middleware framework; mobile computing testbed; performance evaluation; performance study; synchronous collaborative virtual reality application; synchronous virtual reality tool; virtual world; Application software; Collaboration; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Computer aided instruction; Java; Middleware; Mobile computing; Testing; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2000. ICME 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6536-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2000.869574

Filename

869574