UbiWorld: an environment integrating virtual reality, supercomputing, and design

UbiWorld is a concept being developed by the Futures Laboratory group at Argonne National Laboratory that ties together the notion of ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp) with that of using virtual reality for rapid prototyping. The goal is to develop an environment where one can explore Ubicomp-type concepts without having to build real Ubicomp hardware. The basic notion is to extend object models in a virtual world by using distributed wide area heterogeneous computing technology to provide complex networking and processing capabilities to virtual reality objects.

[1]  Mark Weiser,et al.  Some computer science issues in ubiquitous computing , 1993, CACM.

[2]  Robert Olson,et al.  Designing the future of collaborative science: Argonne's Futures Laboratory , 1995, IEEE Parallel Distributed Technol. Syst. Appl..

[3]  Bill N. Schilit,et al.  The Parctab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment , 1994, Mobidata.

[4]  Douglas C. Schmidt,et al.  The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment An Object-Oriented Network Programming Toolkit for Developing Communication Software , 1993 .

[5]  Lawrence W. Stark,et al.  Some of what one needs to know about using head-mounted displays to improve teleoperator performance , 1993, IEEE Trans. Robotics Autom..

[6]  David Zeltzer,et al.  Three Dimensional Visual Display Systems for Virtual Environments , 1992, Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments.

[7]  Warren Smith,et al.  Software infrastructure for the I-WAY high-performance distributed computing experiment , 1996, Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing.

[8]  Carolina Cruz-Neira,et al.  Surround-Screen Projection-Based Virtual Reality: The Design and Implementation of the CAVE , 2023 .

[9]  Mark Weiser,et al.  The world is not a desktop , 1994, INTR.

[10]  Rick Stevens,et al.  Tools for distributed collaborative environments: a research agenda , 1996, Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing.

[11]  John A. Kunze,et al.  Functional Recommendations for Internet Resource Locators , 1995, RFC.

[12]  Sheng-Ke Yu.  Errata: Comments on 'Knowledge Representation Using Fuzzy Petri Nets' , 1995 .

[13]  Rick Stevens,et al.  Sharing visualization experiences among remote virtual environments , 1995 .

[14]  Mark Weiser.  The computer for the 21st century , 1991 .