Abstract:

NAVL (Newtonian Architecture for Virtual Landscapes) is a distributed
virtual reality system designed with the goal of achieving a high degree of
network efficiency; in particular, by:

- using a hierarchical network architecture that is more efficient than
traditional peer-to-peer or client/server architectures, and

- simulating the virtual world on the local hosts using a Newtonian based
model, thereby functioning as a high order dead reckoning protocol.

This paper presents the general overview of the NAVL VR system along with
details of the proposed implementation.