Open ActiveWrl - A Middleware Based Software Development Toolkit for Immersive VE Systems

Winkelholz, C.; Alexander, T.; Weiß, M.

Open ActiveWrl - A Middleware Based Software Development Toolkit for Immersive VE Systems

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321-322.pdf (98.96 KB)

Date

2003

Authors

Winkelholz, C.
Alexander, T.
Weiß, M.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

A Virtual Environment (VE) is not an application in itself. It should further be seen as a complex, multi modal human-computer interface. Immersive VE systems must be able to couple resources, most likely distributed in a cluster, into a parallel, real-time simulation. The shortcoming of most VE software libraries is the inability to provide an environment that satisfies the three main requirements in the implementation of a VE system, namely the design of the VE interface, the implementation of the actual application and the distribution of parallel tasks to appropriate resources within a cluster system. This paper presents Open ActiveWrl, an open source software project that tackles these problems by a generic software development approach. It is tailored for heterogenous cluster systems. Open ActiveWrl uses a general-purpose middleware that interprets VRML/X3D as an interface definition language.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:EGVE/IPT_EGVE2003/321-322
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments
},
editor = {Andreas Kunz and Joachim Deisinger
},
title = {{Open ActiveWrl - A Middleware Based Software Development Toolkit for Immersive VE Systems
}},
author = {Winkelholz, C. and 
Alexander, T. and 
Weiß, M.
},
year = {2003
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-06-4
},
DOI = {10.2312/EGVE/IPT_EGVE2003/321-322
}
}