VRWork: Toolkit for Development of Web based Virtual Environments

초록

Networked Virtual Environments allows multiple users to interact in real-time even though those users may be located around the world. The NVE developer must manage consistent distributed information, guarantee real-time interactivity with limited network bandwidth, processing and rendering resources. Moreover the majority of the functions for NVE applications are common. Therefore the NVE developer should tolerate the problem of duplication of development efforts for same functions. So, we design a toolkit for supporting the development of NVE on Internet and name it VRWork. VRWork provides multi-user supporting functions and additional functions, which is needed for human oriented collaborative applications. The multi-user supporting in VRWork lay emphasis on the scalability and availability of NVE applications. For this VRWork use multi-level event filtering. VRWork’s additional functions for human oriented collaborative applications are as follows: Efficient access control for shared object, Easy sharing of legacy 2D application software in NVEs, and Dynamic notification of events.