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GNU/MAVERIK: a micro-kernel for large-scale virtual environments

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VRST '99: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/323663.323674

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This paper describes a publicly available virtual reality (VR) system, GNU/MAVERIK, which forms one component of a complete 'VR operating system'. We give an overview of the architecture of MAVERIK, and show how it is designed to use application data in an intelligent way, via a simple, yet powerful, callback mechanism which supports an object-oriented framework of classes, objects and methods. Examples are given which illustrate different uses of the system, and typical performance levels.

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