Collaborative virtual environments: from birth to standardization

Joslin, Chris; Giacomo, Thomas Di; Magnenat‐Thalmann, Nadia

doi:10.1109/mcom.2004.1284925

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“…2003), the exploitation of multimedia networking technologies (Gutwin et al 2004) and the use of peerto-peer networks such as Gnutella (Boukerche, Araujo and Laffranchi 2004). In addition there are recent efforts by the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) to extend MPEG to allow multi-user support (Joslin, Di Giacomo and magnenat-Thalmann 2004). This extension to MPEG-4 is referred to as Multi-user Technology (MUTech).…”

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confidence: 99%

On Consistency and Network Latency in Distributed Interactive Applications: A Survey—Part II

Delaney¹,

Ward²,

McLoone

2006

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

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-This paper is the second part of a two part paper that documents a detailed survey of the research carried out on consistency and latency in distributed interactive applications (DIAs) in recent decades. Part I reviewed the terminology associated with DIAs and offered definitions for consistency and latency. A classification for consistency maintenance mechanisms was given and various mechanisms belonging to the first of three categories, time management, were described. Here, in the second part of the paper, the remaining two categories of mechanisms are examined -information management (such as predictive contract techniques, relevance filtering, packet bundling) and system architecture (such as QoS and protocols).

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

On Consistency and Network Latency in Distributed Interactive Applications: A Survey—Part II

Delaney¹,

Ward²,

McLoone

2006

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

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“…The key areas and methodologies regarding the most pioneering CVE systems from 1987 to 2003 are discussed in [7]. There exists a variety of application domains for CVE systems such as gaming, business and education.…”

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A multi-protocol framework for the development of collaborative virtual environments

Argento¹,

Furfaro²

2015

2015 IEEE 19th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD)

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Abstract-Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) are used for collaboration and interaction of possibly many participants that may be spread over large distances. Both commercial and freely available CVEs exist today. Currently, CVEs are used already in a variety of different fields: gaming, business, education, social communication, and cooperative development. In this paper, a general framework is proposed for the development of a cooperative environment which is able to exploit a multi protocol network infrastructure. The framework offers support to concerns such as communication security and inter-protocol interoperability and let software engineers to focus on the specific business of the CVE under development. To show the framework effectiveness we consider, as a case of study, the design of a reusable software layer for the development of distributed card games built on top of it. This layer is, in turn, used for the implementation of a specific card game.

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“…We used the CastGate [16] project, which, in practice, consists of two entities. One of these entities, the router, is placed in the local, multicast-enabled LAN.…”

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ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment Architecture

Quax

Dierckx

Cornelissen

et al. 2008

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

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The explosive growth of the number of applications based on networked virtual environment technology, both games and virtual communities, shows that these types of applications have become commonplace in a short period of time. However, from a research point of view, the inherent weaknesses in their architectures are quickly exposed. The Architecture for Large-Scale Virtual Interactive Communities (ALVICs) was originally developed to serve as a generic framework to deploy networked virtual environment applications on the Internet. While it has been shown to effectively scale to the numbers originally put forward, our findings have shown that, on a real-life network, such as the Internet, several drawbacks will not be overcome in the near future. It is, therefore, that we have recently started with the development of ALVIC-NG, which, while incorporating the findings from our previous research, makes several improvements on the original version, making it suitable for deployment on the Internet as it exists today.

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Collaborative virtual environments: from birth to standardization

Cited by 45 publications

References 4 publications

On Consistency and Network Latency in Distributed Interactive Applications: A Survey—Part II

On Consistency and Network Latency in Distributed Interactive Applications: A Survey—Part II

A multi-protocol framework for the development of collaborative virtual environments

ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment Architecture

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