Abstract:
The emergence of collaborative virtual world applications that
run over the Internet has presented Virtual Reality (VR)
application designers with new challenges. In an environment
where the public internet streams multimedia data and is
constantly under pressure to deliver over widely heterogeneous
user-platforms, there has been a growing need that distributed
virtual world applications be aware of and adapt to frequent
variations in their context of execution. In this paper, we argue
that the use of structural reflection offers great potential for the
design of flexible real-time interactive Distributed Virtual
Environments (DVEs).
