Enhancing collaboration in virtual reality applications

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 704-718

  Theoktisto, Víctor ^a   Fairén, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TOPOLOGY;

AVATAR AWARENESS; CLIENT COMMUNICATIONS; INTERFACE MODEL; PEER-TO-PEER TOPOLOGY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 27444438820     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2005.08.023     Document Type: Article

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