MVIP-II: A protocol for enabling communication in collaborative virtual environments

Web3D Symposium Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 155-160

  Robinson, John ^a   Dumoulin, Sarah ^a   Stewart, John ^a  

^a Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous avatars; Distributed virtual environments; IP multicasting; Mbone; Multiuser virtual reality; Virtual reality markup language (VRML)

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AVATARS; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MULTICAST PROTOCOL; MULTIUSER VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUAL REALITY MARKUP LANGUAGE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTICASTING; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 34250806537     PISSN: 15529886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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