Accession Number:

ADA341952

Title:

Development of a Commercial FOM for 3D Interactive Entertainment Applications

Descriptive Note:

Final report 17 Aug 97-17 Mar 98

Corporate Author:

PERCEPTRONICS INC WOODLAND HILLS CA

Personal Author(s):

• Kemkes, fAndreas
• Rogers, Douglas
• Vestewig, Richard

Report Date:

1998-03-19

Pagination or Media Count:

26.0

Abstract:

This report describes the development of a High Level Architecture HLA federates and Federation Object Model FOM to show the viability of this approach for multi participant, networked games and other entertainment applications. A simple tennis like game called Tong, representative of a particular application class, was developed and represented using HLA development requirements. The game was played on a testbed consisting of two PC platforms connected by ethernet, with communication accomplished by the HLA Run Time Infrastructure RTI 1.0-2 for Windows. Both standard 2D and a unique autostereo no glasses or headtracking 30 display, which shows 30 images with parallax , were used for visualization. Design and implementation was performed for three key issues for interactive games transfer of ownership, viewpoint sharing and multiple levels of detail viewing, including device-independent abstractions. The report concludes that HLA principles and RTI services are appropriate for commercial applications including networked games, Location Based Entertainment, medical and education.

Descriptors:

• *REAL TIME
• *COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
• *THREE DIMENSIONAL
• *COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
• *COMPUTER NETWORKS
• *RECREATION
• REQUIREMENTS
• TEST BEDS
• COMMERCE
• EDUCATION
• COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS
• MODELS
• INTERACTIONS
• MEDICINE
• PLATFORMS
• COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
• INFRASTRUCTURE

Subject Categories:

• Sociology and Law
• Computer Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE