Abstract
The interoperability between heterogeneous distributed virtual environments is one of the main problem Virtual Reality will have to face in the very close future. This article presents the main concepts we propose in NOVÆ (which stands for Networked Open VirtuAl Environment), These concepts are presented as a set of paradigms based on the semantic of a virtual world and its virtual entities.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
[Bréant et al. 1994] F. Bréant, H. LÊ Van GÔng, et M. Soto. Towards open virtual environments interoperability. Tokyo, Japan, July 1994. International Conference on Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence.
National Research Council. Virtual Reality, Scientific and Technological Challenges. National Academy Press, 1995.
IEEE Standard for Information Technology — Protocols for Distributed Interactive Simulation Applications, Entity Information and Interaction. Technical Report ISBN 1-55937-305-9, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1993.
J. Ferber. Les Systemes Multi-Agents, vers une intelligence collective. 1995.
H. LÊ Van GÔng, F. Bréant, et M. Soto. Architecture for virtual environments cooperation. San Antonio, Texas, USA, October 1994. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Mans and Cybernetics.
Hytime — hypermedia time based structuring language. (10744), 1992.
ISO. Hyperoda — hypermedia office document architecture. (8613/PDAM 7–10), October 1992.
ISO. Mheg: Information technology — coding of multimedia and hypermedia information, part 1: Mheg object representation, base notation (asn.1). 1994.
ISO. MHEG: Information Technology — Coding of Multimedia and Hypermedia Information, Part 2: alternate notation (SGML). Technical report, 1996.
M. Macedonia et M. Zyda. A taxonomy for networked virtual environments. In Workshop on Networked Realities, Boston, MA, October 1995.
D. R. Pratt. A Software Architecture for the Construction and Management of Real-Time Virtual Worlds. PhD thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, June 1993.
G. Singh, L. Serra, W. Png, A. Wong, et H. Ng. Bricknet: Sharing objects behaviors on the net. In IEEE Computer Society Press, editor, Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium'95, March 1995.
D. Snowdon et A. West. The aviary distributed virtual environment. In Robin Hollands, editor, Proceedings of the 2nd UK VR-SIG Conference, pages 39–54, 1994.
A.J. West, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, A.D. Murta, D.N. Snowdon, et D.A. Butler. Aviary — a generic virtual reality interface for real applications. In R.A. Earnshaw, M.A. Gigante, et H. Jones, editors, Virtual Reality Systems, chapter 15, pages 213–226. Academic Press, March 1993.
M. Zelesko et D. Cheriton. Specializing object-oriented rpc for functionality and performance. In International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS, 1996.
M.J. Zyda, C. Lombardo, et D.R. Pratt. Hypermedia and networking in the development of large-scale environments. In International Conference on Artificial Reality and Tele-existence, pages 33–39, Tokyo, Japan, July 1993.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1997 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Soto, M., Lê VĂn Gông, H. (1997). Achieving Networked Virtual Environments interoperability. In: Steinmetz, R., Wolf, L.C. (eds) Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services. IDMS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1309. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0000338
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0000338
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-63519-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-69590-5
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive