UbiWorld: An environment integrating virtual reality, supercomputing and design
- Argonne National Laboratory, IL (United States)
UbiWorld is a concept being developed by the Futures Lab Group at Argonne 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 using distributed wide area heterogeneous computing technology to provide complex networking and processing capabilities to virtual reality objects. It is relatively easy to imagine elements of Ubicomp systems (tables, curtains, wallpaper cups) but when Mark Weiser`s group at Xerox set out to work in this area they had to build experimental hardware and software systems to test the concepts. Building hardware is expensive and hard and in the end is always problematic because it has to build around the limitations of current computing technology. We imagine a different approach, and call it UbiWorld.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 421372
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960835-; TRN: 96:006403-0034
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. IEEE international symposium on high-performance distributed computing, Syracuse, NY (United States), 6-9 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the fifth IEEE international symposium on high performance distributed computing; PB: 664 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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