Studierstube: An Application Environment for Multi-User Games in Virtual Reality

: Studierstube is an operating system for applications in virtual reality. It supports multiple users collaborating in a distributed system. While initially developed for scientific visualization, the generic approach supports almost any kind of VR application on a wide range of VR-hardware. Inherent concepts of Studierstube – like real-time graphics, high-level interaction methods, multi-user integration, and distributed execution – make it an ideal environment for multi-user games in virtual reality. In this paper we show how Studierstube implements these concepts and how game programmers can utilize them.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: GI
• Authors: Anton L. Fuhrmann, Werner Purgathofer
• Keywords: Distributed System, GI 2001, Operating System, Theoretical Computer Science, Virtual Reality