TOURAINE, DamienBOURDOT, PatrickBELLIK, YacineBOLOT, LaurenceS. Mueller and W. Stuerzlinger2014-01-272014-01-2720021-58113-535-11727-530Xhttps://doi.org/10.2312/EGVE/EGVE02/159-168This paper describes the EVI3d framework, a distributed architecture developed to enhance interactions within Virtual Environments (VE). This framework manages many multi-sensorial devices such as trackers, data gloves, and speech or gesture recognition systems as well as haptic devices. The structure of this architecture allows a complete dispatching of device services and their clients on as many machines as required. With the dated events provided by its time synchronization system, it becomes possible to design a specific module to manage multimodal fusion processes. To this end, we describe how the EVI3d framework manages not only low-level events but also abstract modalities. Moreover, the data flow service of the EVI3d framework solves the problem of sharing the virtual scene between modality modules.