Software Tools for Building Distributed Virtual Reality Systems. Part I

V. Y. Kharitonov ,e-mail: kharitonovvy@gmail.com

This paper is devoted to the problem of distributed virtual reality (DVR) systems design which is important and relevant at the present time. An approach based on the creating of a specialized middleware allowing to simplify and at the same time to accelerate DVR system development is proposed. In the first part of paper a brief overview of related work in area of DVR systems and their main properties are examined. Software architecture and a high-level network protocol used as a basis for the proposed middleware are introduced.

Keywords: distributed virtual reality systems, data consistency, distributed simulation, 3D interactive computer graphics and computer networks

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