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Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is widely used to represent, create, and display virtual reality objects and their environment. Some VRML applications require concurrent interaction by multiple users in a real-time distributed fashion. Such applications need a method for users to share and update the VRML objects in real-time. To allow concurrent shared real-time access, our approach is to store the VRML objects in an object-oriented database system (ObjectStore). In this paper, we present an architecture that allows multiple users to interact in a non-trivial way in such a shared VRML environment. We outline how the VRML world can be saved in ObjectStore.
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Turgut, D., Aydin, N., Elmasri, R., Turgut, B. (2001). Integration of Object-Oriented Databases with VRML in Virtual Environments. In: Wang, X., Johnston, R., Patel, S. (eds) OOIS 2001. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0719-4_39
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