Yther: A Proposal and Initial Prototype of a Virtual Reality Content Sharing System

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dc.contributor.authorSteed, Anthonyen_US
dc.contributor.editorMasataka Imura and Pablo Figueroa and Betty Mohleren_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-28T06:32:04Z
dc.date.available2015-10-28T06:32:04Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThere are many virtual reality development tools, but we argue that none has solved the disparate problems of ease of content creation, openness of access for developers and broad support for a variety of immersive and nonimmersive virtual reality systems. Yther is a proposal and initial prototype of a platform for sharing immersive and non-immersive virtual environments. Yther doesn't propose a new content standard, but builds upon the Unity system. The first contribution of Yther is a clear separation of concerns between development of content (zones) and support for specific hardware. The second contribution is a set of abstractions that allow developer to author interaction techniques and behaviours without specific reference to the interaction devices that any particular runtime instance has. The third contribution is a mechanism within the Unity development environment for publishing content so that it can be made available for testing and sharing very easily. The current implementation of Yther is a prototype but it already demonstrates capabilities that distinguish it from similar systems.en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersFull Papersen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationICAT-EGVE 2015 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environmentsen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2312/egve.20151323en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-905674-84-2en_US
dc.identifier.issn1727-530Xen_US
dc.identifier.pages151-158en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/egve.20151323en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectINFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION [H.5.1]en_US
dc.subjectMultimedia Information Systemsen_US
dc.subjectArtificialen_US
dc.subjectaugmenteden_US
dc.subjectand virtual realitiesen_US
dc.titleYther: A Proposal and Initial Prototype of a Virtual Reality Content Sharing Systemen_US
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