A Design and Evaluation of the Multi-User Virtual Environment Server System for the Digital Museum

  • Authors:
  • Tomonori Usaka;Ken Sakamura

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • TRON '96 Proceedings of the 13th TRON Project International Symposium
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

The Digital Museum is one of the applications of the Multi-User Virtual Environment System. In the Digital Museum, objects in the Digital Museum are displayed as multimedia data stored in the Digital Museum Server System, and users can visit the Digital Museum by connecting user interface programs to the Digital Museum Server System via a network. Many users can explore the Digital Museum simultaneously, and then they can interact with other users or objects in the Digital Museum. In this study, a prototype for the Digital Museum System is developed. To manage many users and large scaled virtual environment, this system is constructed as a multi server system connected with a fast network. The number of update messages received by each clients and servers are dependent on the density of users in the virtual environment but independent of the number of servers, so the size of the virtual environment can be enlarged as the number of servers increases without increasing the update messages processed by clients and servers.