GNU/MAVERIK: a micro-kernel for large-scale virtual environments

Authors:
Roger Hubbold;Jon Cook;Martin Keates;Simon Gibson;Toby Howard;Alan Murta;Adrian West;Steve Pettifer
Affiliations:
Advanced Interfaces Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;Advanced Interfaces Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;Advanced Interfaces Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;Advanced Interfaces Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;Advanced Interfaces Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;Advanced Interfaces Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;Advanced Interfaces Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;Advanced Interfaces Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
Year:
1999

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Abstract

This paper describes a publicly available virtual reality (VR) system, GNU/MAVERIK, which forms one component of a complete 'VR operating system'. We give an overview of the architecture of MAVERIK, and show how it is designed to use application data in an intelligent way, via a simple, yet powerful, callback mechanism which supports an object-oriented framework of classes, objects and methods. Examples are given which illustrate different uses of the system, and typical performance levels.