Towards enhanced data consistency in distributed virtual environments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5006, Issue , 2003, Pages 436-444

  Kim, Sung Jin ^a   Kuester, Falko ^a   Kim, K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Collaborative Virtual Environments; Distributed Real time Systems; Timestamp; TMO; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; JITTER; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SERVERS;

DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0041859414     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.477349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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