DLoVe: Using Constraints to Allow Parallel Processing in Multi-User Virtual Reality

In this paper, we introduce DLoVe, a new paradigm for designing and implementing distributed and nondistributed virtual reality applications, using one-way constraints. DLoVe allows programs written in its framework to be executed on multiple computers for improved performance. It also allows easy specification and implementation of multi-user interfaces. DLoVe hides all the networking aspects of message passing among the machines in the distributed environment and performs the needed network optimizations. As a result, a user of DLoVe does not need to understand parallel and distributed programming to use the system; he or she needs only be able to use the serial version of the user interface description language. Parallelizing the computation is performed by DLoVe, without modifying the interface description.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: VR
• Authors: Leonidas Deligiannidis, Robert J. K. Jacob
• Keywords: Interface Description, Needed Network Optimizations, Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality Applications, VR 2002