Project Number
- 137
Title
- Interactive Multiplayer HoverBall
Description
- Networked multi-player gaming environment for arena-based virtual air hockey in spacecraft.
Contact
- Norman Gee
Affiliation
- Hewlett-Packard Company
Address
- 3404 East Harmony Road, MS 74
- Fort Collins, Colorado 80528-9599
- +1.970.898.6256
- Fort Collins, Colorado 80528-9599
- norman_gee@hp.com
WWW
- http://www.hp.com
Year
- 1996
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "HoverBall" is a demonstration of a collaborative, networked, three-dimensional environment that enables two four-player teams to engage in a air-hockey-like physically simulated game.
- "HoverBall" is implemented on top of an object-oriented, generalized simulation server that can support multiple player clients with a wide variety of graphics and audio capabilities. Players collaborate with teammates via actions in the arena and two-way audio communications.
Sight
- HP Visualize workstations
Sound
- native audio, two-way voice headsets
Touch
- joystick, haptic control devices
Smell
Taste
Other
- networked clients, layered client-server protocol
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 309 - entertainment
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Networked client-server.
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