Urbi et Orbi: Unusual design and implementation choices for distributed virtual environments
In Proceedings of the 6th international conference on virtual systems and MultiMedia (VSMM)—intelligent environments workshop
Abstract
This paper describes Urbi et Orbi, a distributed virtual environment (DVE) project that is being conducted in the Research and Development Laboratory at EPITA. Our ultimate goal is to provide support for large scale multi-user virtual worlds on end-user machines. The incremental development of this project led us to take unusual design and implementation decisions that we propose to relate in this paper. Firstly, a general overview of the project is given, along with the initial requirements we wanted to meet. Then, we go on with a description of the system’s architecture. Lastly, we describe and justify the unusual choices we have made in the project’s internals.