Issues in the design of a flexible distributed architecture for supporting persistence and interoperability in collaborative virtual environments

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Leigh, Jason ^a   Johnson, Andrew E ^a   DeFanti, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative persistence virtual reality scalable

Indexed keywords

GROUPWARE; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COLLABORATION IN DESIGNS; COLLABORATIVE PERSISTENCE VIRTUAL REALITY SCALABLE; COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARES; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED DATA STORES; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESOURCES; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY;

CAVES;

EID: 84900303791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/509593.509614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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