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International Symposium on Visual Computing

ISVC 2008: Advances in Visual Computing pp 901–912Cite as

Environment-Independent VR Development

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Vrui (Virtual Reality User Interface) is a C++ development toolkit for highly interactive and high-performance VR applications, aimed at producing completely environment-independent software. Vrui not only hides differences between display systems and multi-pipe rendering approaches, but also separates applications from the input devices available at any environment. Instead of directly referencing input devices, e. g., by name, Vrui applications work with an intermediate tool layer that expresses interaction with input devices at a higher semantic level. This allows environment integrators to provide tools to map the available input devices to semantic events such as selection, location, dragging, navigation, menu selection, etc., in the most efficient and intuitive way possible. As a result, Vrui applications run effectively on widely different VR environments, ranging from desktop systems with only keyboard and mouse to fully-immersive multi-screen systems with multiple 6-DOF input devices. Vrui applications on a desktop are not run in a “simulator” mode mostly useful for debugging, but are fully usable and look and feel similar to native desktop applications.

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  1. W. M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences (KeckCAVES), University of California, Davis, USA

    Oliver Kreylos

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

    Paolo Remagnino

  6. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Fatih Porikli

  7. Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box, FL 32611-6120, Gainsville, USA

    Jörg Peters

  8. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, NY 10532, Hawthorne, USA

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  10. Denver Museum of Nature and Space, 2001 Colorade Blvd. Denver,, CO 80205, USA

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  11. Departmen of Computer Science,, NC State University, Campus Box 8206, NC 27695-8206, Raleigh, USA

    Theresa-Marie Rhyne

  12. Los Alamos National Labs, P.O. Box 1663, NM 87545, Los Alamos, USA

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Kreylos, O. (2008). Environment-Independent VR Development. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5358. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89639-5_86

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