DIVERSE: A framework for building extensible and reconfigurable device-independent virtual environments and distributed asynchronous simulations

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-36

  Kelso, John ^a   Satterfleld, Steven G ^b   Arsenault, Lance E ^a   Ketchan, Peter M ^c   Kriz, Ronald D ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ASYNCHRONOUS SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0037305920     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/105474603763835314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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