Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering 490 (Part 2 of 2):
Independant study implementing shared virtual environments
in VRML 2.0 and Java (JDK 1.1.2)
In the spirit of DOOM we created a maze game to demonstrate
a shared environment using VRML 2.0 and Java 1.1.2 only.
Through the EAI of VRML 2.0 the Java applet sends and receives
data packets from 2 or 3 players. This could be done more easily with
Active X or a Java server but we wanted to use the mutlicasting
recently available in Java 1.1.2. Which is more scalable than a
Java server and far more secure and universal than Active X.
With the new Netscape 4.0 we might be able to make some improvements
with its new features like JAR. Most importantly have FUN.
Diganta Saha and Baljit Singh Vijan.
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