Project Number
- 17
Title
- NPSNET: A 3D Visual Simulator for Virtual World Exploration and Experience
Description
- Multi-player, realtime, 3D virtual environment simulation for distributed systems.
Contact
- Michael J. Zyda, David R. Pratt
Affiliation
- Naval Postgraduate School
Address
- Code CS/ZK
- Department of Computer Science
- Monterey, California 93943
- +1.408.646.2305
- Department of Computer Science
- zyda@trouble.cs.nps.navy.mil
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- NPSNET is a multi-player, realtime, 3D visual simulation system capable of displaying vehicle movement over the ground or in the air.
- The system displays a variety of on-ground cultural features (roads, buildings, soil types, elevations) and allows for vehicle control with a six-degree-of-freedom spaceball or button/dialbox. Over 500 vehicles can be in interactive motion simultaneously. SGI IRIS workstations provide the rendering power for realtime interaction.
- The architecture is intended for a broad range of training, planning, and gaming applications across low-compute-cost networked simulations.
Sight
- SGI IRIS workstations (Personal IRIS, GT, GTX, VGX)
Sound
Touch
- SGI SpaceBall and Button?Dial Box
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 303 - simulator / simulation
Secondary
- 107 - interoperability (net,std,protcl)
Remarks
- Virtual Environment simulation.
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