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SOSP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
THINC: a virtual display architecture for thin-client computing
Rapid improvements in network bandwidth, cost, and ubiquity combined with the security hazards and high total cost of ownership of personal computers have created a growing market...
Ricardo A. Baratto, Leonard N. Kim, Jason Nieh
COMPSAC
2001
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Utilizing Object-Oriented Databases for Concurrency Control in Virtual Environments
Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is widely used to represent, create, and display virtual reality objects and their environment. Some VRML applications require concurrent ...
Damla Turgut, Nevin Aydin, Ramez Elmasri, Begumhan...
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Framing Virtual Law
Building on the work of games theorists and virtual world designers, this paper proposes a framework for understanding the real-virtual dichotomy in terms of a series of five fram...
Peter Edelmann
ECRA
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
vCOM: Electronic commerce in a collaborative virtual world
Existing e-commerce applications on the web provide the users a relatively simple, browser-based interface to access available products. Customers are not provided with the same s...
Xiaojun Shen, T. Radakrishnan, Nicolas D. Georgana...
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Improv: A System for Scripting Interactive Actors in Virtual Worlds
Improv is a system for the creation of real-time behavior-based animated actors. There have been several recent efforts to build network distributed autonomous agents. But in gene...
Ken Perlin, Athomas Goldberg