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This paper describes an ongoing project in the UK to establish a framework for distributed virtual reality applications. The paper describes the aims of the project, the three applications (physics teaching, collaborative information browsing, and geometric design), the methodology for evaluation, and the network infrastructure.
This work has been sponsored by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
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Slater, M. et al. (1996). Distributed Extensible Virtual Reality Laboratory (DEVRL). In: Göbel, M., David, J., Slavik, P., van Wijk, J.J. (eds) Virtual Environments and Scientific Visualization ’96. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7488-3_15
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