The role of structural reflection in distributed virtual reality

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn Part F129026, Issue , 2003, Pages 140-149

  Okanda, Paul ^a   Blair, Gordon ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Distributed virtual environment (DVE); Object behaviour; Reflection; Virtual reality (VR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REFLECTION; SCALABILITY;

ADAPTATION; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL WORLDS; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL REALITY; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL WORLDS; HETEROGENEOUS USERS; OBJECT BEHAVIOUR; STRUCTURAL REFLECTION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84993717780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1008653.1008679     Document Type: Conference Paper

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