Abstract
Virtual reality shows great promise as a research tool in computational science and engineering. However, since VR involves new interface styles, a great deal of implementation effort is required to develop VR applications.
In this paper we present PVR; an event-based architecture for portable VR applications. The goal of PVR is to provide a programming environment which facilitates the development of VR applications. PVR differentiates itself from other VR toolkits in two ways: First, it decouples the coordination and management of multiple data streams from actual data processing. This simplifies the programmer’s task of managing and synchronizing the data streams. Second, PVR strives for portability by shielding low-level device specific details. Application programmers can take full advantage of the underlying hardware while maintaining a single code base spanning a variety of input and output device configurations.
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van Liere, R., Mulder, J.D. (1999). PVR An Architecture for Portable VR Applications. In: Gervautz, M., Schmalstieg, D., Hildebrand, A. (eds) Virtual Environments ’99. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6805-9_13
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