Special Issue: Reflections on the Design and Implementation of Virtual Environment Systems Guest Editors' Introduction

摘要

Virtual and augmented environments are now being used by a wide range of laboratories, industries, educational establishments, and hobbyists around the world. With the burgeoning power of home consoles, personal computers, and mobile devices, we are hardly limited by the power of existing hardware. It is the software part of such real time interactive systems (RIS) that poses interesting challenges. This is not for lack of different approaches; on the contrary, there is a plethora of middleware and systems in use today. These range from Open Source toolkits and frameworks maintained by the community through networked game engines, both hobbyist and commercial, through to fully-fledged VR/AR systems with very broad support for devices.