From: Blair MacIntyre <bm@cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: MISC: Distributed Virtual Reality Project
Date: 12 Nov 1996 16:57:02 -0500
Message-ID: <xn1g22fkmdt.fsf@renoir.cs.columbia.edu>
Organization: Columbia University


kjohnsto <kjohnsto@ece.utexas.edu> writes:

> I'm doing a school project on distance education.  We've decided to
> investigate interactive distributed virtual reality. I've found a lot
> of good information on the Navy's DIS pages, but are there any other
> sources on the web?  Most of the VRML stuff seems to be single-user.

Take a look at the paper I just presented at the UIST'96 symposium
(ACM's Synposium on User Interface Software and Technology).

The paper is 
   MacIntyre, B. and Feiner, S.  
	``Language-Level Support for Exploratory Programming of 
	  Distributed Virtual Environments.</a>'' 
	in <i>Proc. UIST '96</i>. Seattle, WA., November, 1996.

and is available for download at
	http://www.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/publications/uist96.ps

The slides from my talk are at 
	http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~bm/uist96-talk/

In addition to talking about my work, I have an extensive
bibliography of, and short discussion (hey, it's a 12 page paper)
about, many distributed VR systems.

> Also, does anyone have any numbers on how many vrml "objects" can
> be rendered per frame?  How is that affected by the CPU and/or 
> graphics cards...

It's totally dependent on CPU and/or graphics cards.

-- 
Blair MacIntyre (bm@cs.columbia.edu), Graduate Student (Graphics and UI Lab)

smail: Dept. of Computer Science, 1214 Amsterdam Ave, Mail Code 0401
       Columbia University, New York, NY 10027-7003