Studierstube: An Application Environment for Multi-User Games in Virtual Reality.
Anton L. Fuhrmann, Werner Purgathofer · 2001
Studierstube is an operating system for applications in virtual reality. It supports multiple users collaborating in a distributed system. While initially developed for scientific visualization, the generic approach supports almost any kind of VR application on a wide range of VR-hardware. Inherent concepts of Studierstube -- like real-time graphics, high-level interaction methods, multi-user integration, and distributed execution -- make it an ideal environment for multi-user games in virtual reality. In this paper we show how Studierstube implements these concepts and how game programmers can utilize them.