HECTOR - scripting-based VR system design

Authors:
Gordon Wetzstein;Moritz Göllner;Stephan Beck;Felix Weiszig;Sebastian Derkau;Jan P. Springer;Bernd Fröhlich
Affiliations:
University of British Columbia and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar;Ceetron GmbH and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar;Bauhaus-Universität Weimar;Bauhaus-Universität Weimar;Bauhaus-Universität Weimar;Bauhaus-Universität Weimar;Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Venue:
ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 posters
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Modern VR systems embrace the idea of scripting interfaces for rapid prototyping of applications. HECTOR goes one step further: the entire core of the VR system is written in PYTHON, easily gluing interchangeable high-performance C++ libraries, a module-based system infrastructure and a scripting-based application layer. Thus, the time consuming and error prone compile-debug cycle for application and system development becomes obsolete -- both, the infrastructure and the application layer, can be extended or modified even at run-time.