"collaborative virtual environments"

Multimedia Integration into the Blue-c API

In this article, we present the blue-c application programming interface (API) and discuss some of its performance characteristics. The blue-c API is a software toolkit for media-rich, collaborative, immersive virtual reality applications. It …

Blue-c API: A Multimedia and 3D Video Enhanced Toolkit for Collaborative VR and Telepresence

In this paper we present the blue-c application programming interface, a software toolkit for media-rich, collaborative, immersive virtual reality applications. The blue-c API provides easy to use interfaces to all blue-c technology, including …

The Blue-c Distributed Scene Graph

In this paper we present a distributed scene graph architecture for use in the blue-c, a novel collaborative immersive virtual environment. We extend the widely used OpenGL Performer toolkit to provide a distributed scene graph maintaining full …