A Game Engine-based Multi-Projection Virtual Environment with System-Level Synchronization

Hashimoto, Naoki; Ishida, Yoshihiko; Sato, Makoto

A Game Engine-based Multi-Projection Virtual Environment with System-Level Synchronization

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Date

2005

Authors

Hashimoto, Naoki
Ishida, Yoshihiko
Sato, Makoto

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

In multi-projector displays, which surround users with high-resolution images, a PC-Cluster is often used for realistic and real-time image generation. However, developing applications that support parallel processing on the PC-Cluster is quite troublesome. It is also difficult to acquire sufficient rendering performance because of the limited bandwidth of the PC-Cluster. Therefore, we aim to achieve affordable and accessible software environments for the multi-projector displays. In this paper, we describe a self-distributing software environment for inheriting existent game engines which provide basic functions of realizing virtual environments. This environment achieves minimum data communication based on a master-slave model. The communication mechanism is automatically applied to target applications by intercepting APIs. Hence we can directly exploit high-capability of the existing game engines on the multi-projector displays.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGVE/IPT_EGVE2005/069-078
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
},
editor = {Erik Kjems and Roland Blach
},
title = {{A Game Engine-based Multi-Projection Virtual Environment with System-Level Synchronization
}},
author = {Hashimoto, Naoki and 
Ishida, Yoshihiko and 
Sato, Makoto
},
year = {2005
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-06-4
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGVE/IPT_EGVE2005/069-078
}
}