Big Worlds That Don't Go Away

World Movers

30'th January '97

Mitra

Chief Network Technology Architect

ParaGraph International Inc.

Issues

• Scalability 
• we don't see the light bulb in the next country 
• Shared State 
• we all see the light bulb go on 
• Persistence 
• the light bulb stays on 

Ongoing Work

• Database API 
• Regions, and Zones 
• Living Worlds 

Living Worlds

• Adds multi-user and Shared State to VRML2.0 
• API between VRML and Network 
• Zones, Objects and Avatars 
• Multi-user session tomorrow 

Introductions

• Glenn Schute, SGI - scalability 
• Peter Graf, Black Sun Interactive - Shared State 
• Daniel Lipkin, Oracle - Persistence, and Selectivity 

Related Panels

• Track 1 today - Modeling Efficient VRML worlds 
• Track 1 tomorrow - Optimizing VRML 
• Track 3 tomorrow - Bandwidth Solutions 
• Track 3 tomorrow - If we Build It, Will They Come (Multi-user)