Developing Social Virtual Worlds using NetEffect

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6th Workshop on Enabling Technologies Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET-ICE '97)

MIT, Cambridge, MA

June 18-June 20

ISBN: 0-8186-7967-0

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	T.K. Das, G. Singh, A. Mitchell, P. Senthil Kumar, K. McGee, "Developing Social Virtual Worlds using NetEffect," Enabling Technologies, IEEE International Workshops on, pp. 0148, 6th Workshop on Enabling Technologies Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET-ICE '97), 1997.

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	@article{ 10.1109/ENABL.1997.630806, author = {T.K. Das and G. Singh and A. Mitchell and P. Senthil Kumar and K. McGee}, title = {Developing Social Virtual Worlds using NetEffect}, journal ={Enabling Technologies, IEEE International Workshops on}, volume = {0}, year = {1997}, isbn = {0-8186-7967-0}, pages = {0148}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ENABL.1997.630806}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - Enabling Technologies, IEEE International Workshops on TI - Developing Social Virtual Worlds using NetEffect SN - 0-8186-7967-0 SP EP A1 - T.K. Das, A1 - G. Singh, A1 - A. Mitchell, A1 - P. Senthil Kumar, A1 - K. McGee, PY - 1997 KW - virtual reality; social virtual worlds; NetEffect; media-rich virtual worlds; geographically-dispersed users; low-end computers; personal computers; modems; toolkit; client server systems; network traffic; HistoryCity; children; group dead reckoning; distributed interactive simulation VL - 0 JA - Enabling Technologies, IEEE International Workshops on ER -

T.K. Das, Inst. of Syst. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

G. Singh, Inst. of Syst. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

A. Mitchell, Inst. of Syst. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

P. Senthil Kumar, Inst. of Syst. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

K. McGee, Inst. of Syst. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ENABL.1997.630806

Abstract: This paper describes NetEffect, an infrastructure for developing, supporting, and managing large, media-rich, 3-D social virtual worlds for use by several thousand geographically-dispersed users using low-end computers (PCs) and modems. It has been modularized into six components, in the form of a toolkit, which simplifies the development of network-based virtual worlds. NetEffect partitions a whole virtual world into communities, allocates these communities among a set of servers, and migrates clients from one server to another as clients move through the communities. It devotes special attention to minimizing the network traffic, particularly the traffic that must go through servers. HistoryCity, a virtual world for children, has been developed on NetEffect, which is being beta-tested for deployment in Singapore.

Index Terms:

virtual reality; social virtual worlds; NetEffect; media-rich virtual worlds; geographically-dispersed users; low-end computers; personal computers; modems; toolkit; client server systems; network traffic; HistoryCity; children; group dead reckoning; distributed interactive simulation

Citation:

T.K. Das, G. Singh, A. Mitchell, P. Senthil Kumar, K. McGee, "Developing Social Virtual Worlds using NetEffect," wetice, pp.0148, 6th Workshop on Enabling Technologies Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET-ICE '97), 1997

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