VR-LAB—a distributed multi-user environment for educational purposes and presentations
Dieter W. Fellner, Armin Hopp · 1999
Distributed work is becoming a major issue for a large part of the work force and distributed collaborative research has almost become the norm.Consequently, distributed communication facilities play an im.portant role in all future working and education scenarios.Tele-Teaching and Tele-Learning are important new applications for remote data access.Currently mainly focussing on audio-visual communication, Tele-Education has not discovered distributed 30 virtual environments to a large extent.Howeven we firmly believe that the demand for interactive exploration of distributed 30 databases over the internet and for collaboration within virtual 30 environments will soon become one of he driving forces of future deveopments.This paper presents an architecture, called VR-Lab, which embeds a distributed VRML-System and a remote contollable, distributedpresentation environment to support Tele-Learning and education including 30 media.Permission to make digital or hard copies ofall or part ofthis work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies arc not made or distributed for prolit or commocial advantage and that copies bear this mice and the full citation on the first page.To copy otherwise.to