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CHI
1995
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
User Embodiment in Collaborative Virtual Environments
This paper explores the issue of user embodiment within collaborative virtual environments. By user embodiment we mean the provision of users with appropriate body images so as to...
Steve Benford, John Bowers, Lennart E. Fahlé...
VRCAI
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Parallel-split shadow maps for large-scale virtual environments
Shadowing effects dramatically enhance the realism of virtual environments by providing useful visual cues. Shadow mapping is an efficient algorithm for real-time shadow renderin...
Fan Zhang, Hanqiu Sun, Leilei Xu, Lee Kit Lun
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Hierarchical Load Testing Architecture using Large Scale Virtual Clients
In this work, we develop a hierarchical load testing architecture using large scale virtual clients to reduce the testing time and ensure the stability of the server for distribut...
Bum Lim, Jin Kim, Kwang Shim
CISIS
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
P2P-Based Avatar Interaction in Massive Multiuser Virtual Environments
The idea of the 3D Web as a global scale Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) currently is very popular and a lot of research work is done in this field. In the course of the Hy...
Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Sch...
ICMCS
1997
IEEE
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14 years 27 days ago
A Rate Allocation Policy with MCR/PCR Support and Distributed ABR Implementation Using Explicit Rate Feedback
An important concept in the available bit rate (ABR) service model as defined by the ATM Forum is the minimum cell rate (MCR) guarantee as well as the peak cell rate (PCR) constra...
Yiwei Thomas Hou, Henry H.-Y. Tzeng, Shivendra S. ...